El conocimiento profesional del profesor de biología sobre evolución biológica: un estudio de caso en el ejercicio docente a nivel declarativo

Abstract

The present investigation is framed in the Professional Knowledge of Biology Teachers (CPPB) in the line of the teaching of the biological evolution, with which the CPPB was characterized on evolution by means of a case study in the declarative level. The results of the research show that the CPPB on evolution in the case of Teacher Natalia, is characterized by the integration / transformation of five basic knowledge described by the program of professor Fonseca (2018); Biological knowledge, didactic knowledge, Knowledge of their own life history, knowledge of experience and knowledge of context. As a result of this integration / transformation of knowledge, along with the various relationships and interactions, three emerging knowledge in relation to the teaching of evolution can be described: The teaching of evolution, as a vehicle in the appropriation of a responsible attitude of the human being on the conservation of the species; The teaching and understanding of biological evolution as a mechanism for mitigating attitudes associated with machismo, xenophobia and sexual discrimination; The teaching of evolution and decision making in the construction of a critical citizenship.