State of the art of research in biology teaching in Brazil (1972-2004)

• Grant number: 06/04591-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: November 01, 2006
• End date: October 31, 2008
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education - Educational Teaching and Learning
• Principal Investigator: Jorge Megid Neto
• Grantee: Jorge Megid Neto
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Educação (FE). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The research aims to analyze the development of the research in Science Education of the context of the historical evolution of the research in Education in Brazil, with prominence for the research developed in the scope of the programs of Post-Graduation in Education and Science Education. It detaches the relevance of the called studies of "state of the art", as sort of basic inquiry for analytical studies of the production in determined seek area. This research aim to analyse data from of research that focuses the Brazilian academic production, constituted in the form of texts of dissertations and thesis on Biology Teaching. (AU)