Experiências formativas de professores de ciências naturais: o que pensam sobre a floresta amazônica

Abstract

The Amazon Forest is a biome composed of rich biodiversity and anthropological plurality, therefore, teaching about it must contemplate its complexity, from biological and social issues, highlighting the current scenario, of constant disputes of interest between different classes. Considering education as an ally of environmental awareness and the teacher as a guiding axis to consolidate this process, the present work aims to know the formative experiences of Natural Science teachers that were important to build their thinking about the Amazon Forest. Therefore, an integrative review was carried out in order to collect scientific articles, expanded abstracts, dissertations and theses related to the topic of interest, showing what similar research seeks on the topic, as well as existing gaps. Subsequently, semistructured questionnaires were applied to 6th and 7th grade teachers from 5 public schools in Manaus - AM and the answers obtained were tabulated and analyzed using Laurence Bardin's Content Analysis (2016). It was verified that the teachers constituted their conceptions from the lived experiences and seven distinct categories were created, namely: ‘‘Biodiverse Environment’’, ‘‘Physical Environment’’, ‘‘Environment with Human Presence’’, ‘‘Extraordinary Environment’’, ‘‘Protectionist’’, ‘‘Conflict Environment’’ and ‘‘Utilitarian’’. As they constituted experiences, which both teachers and professors, events did not have experiences - in the form of discipline related visits, such as personal themes, in field experiences, such as by boat, fishing, to events, museums, municipal and state parks. In addition, teachers learned or had contact with the interior environment, knowing aspects of the biome since childhood. It was considered that they were carried out since the publication of important studies, passing through the form of monographs and post-graduation of theses and post-graduations. Contributing, therefore, to the sum of current acquaintances, consolidating it at the national and regional level. Keywords: Formative Experiences, Amazon Forest, Science Teachers.