Contribuição de Paulo Freire para o ensino-aprendizagem de biologia: os temas geradores como procedimento dia-lógico de compreensão do todo da vida (BÍOS)

Abstract

One of the biggest hindrances faced while teaching biology lays on developing pedago-gical practices able to create an integration link between scientific knowledge and the student's daily life, in order to combine biology, conceptual science (logos), with lived life phenomenon (bios). Most of the time, biology teachers find themselves stuck to the contents of curriculum plans, and when they sometimes try to exemplify or contextuali-ze some of the discipline's concepts, the classroom ends up scattered in very seemingly disconnect subjects. So, how to combine the concepts of biology with the students life's situation? In Paulo Freire we find this pedagogical concern about integrating lived life and studied life, for him, an authentic education is made in the relation between educa-tor and student, mediated by the world. The teacher no longer holds the knowledge and values the previous cognizance that the student brings in the baggage. The Freirean pro-posal of "generating themes" will permeate the learning process, breaking up with the paradigms of a traditional education, since its choice must start from an investigation of the world of the student, that is, from the study of its limiting situations and its histori-cal-cultural context of life (bios). On this pedagogical perspective, the biology teacher can play an important role in the formation of critical citizens, who, assuming their for-mation as a process of constant liberation, understand and transform the whole of life (as individual and society).