Intercultural Competence and Skills into the Biology Teachers Training from the Research Procedures of Ethnobiology

  • Geilsa Costa Santos Baptista Department of Education, State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5871-0115
  • Geane Machado Araujo Department of Biology, State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS)

Abstract

We present and discuss the results of qualitative research based on a case study involving undergraduate students in biology from a public university in the State of Bahia, Brazil. The objective was to identify the influence of practical experiences involving ethnobiology applied to science teaching on intercultural dialogue into the initial training of biology teachers. After exposure to activities involving ethnobiology, it was requested to the undergraduate biology teaching students, the construction of narratives revealing the influences of the ethnobiology in their formation as future teachers. Thematic categories generated from data analysis lead us to conclude that the undergraduate students in biology teaching carried out reflections that allowed them to construct opinions with meanings that should influence their pedagogical practices with intercultural dialogue.

Author Biographies

Geilsa Costa Santos Baptista, Department of Education, State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS)
Geilsa C. S. Baptista is Full professor of Education Department at State University of Feira de Santana (Brazil). She leads the research group on Ethnobiology and Science Teaching and is a staff member of the graduate program of Teaching, Philosophy and History of Science (Federal University of Bahia and State University of Feira de Santana).
Geane Machado Araujo, Department of Biology, State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS)
Geane Machado Araujo is undergraduate student of biology teaching at State University of Feira de Santana (Brazil). In 2016, she was nominated teaching assistant of the curricular component “Cultural plurality and school inclusion†of the course of biology teaching.

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Published
2019-11-26