Avaliação dos conteúdos de biologia abordados em livros didáticos do segundo volume do Ensino Médio

Abstract

A lot has been concerned with quality of education in developed countries and the resources used constitutes an important element in achieving this goal. Textbook is a fundamental element in this process, and in many schools, it is configured as the only support material to teachers, even in the face of all existing technological innovation. Update of textbooks is flawed and with the great importance of this material, there is need for research that aim to evaluating the quality of content covered in these textbooks. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the content covered in the second volume of the four main biology books listed by the Ministry of Education for High School. It was prepared comparative tables with the topics covered in each book, presenting a descriptive analysis with a distribution of such content. At the end of all the evaluation, it was done a comparative table with all the contents analyzed per book. We conclude that the book Biologia Hoje from Sérgio Linhares and Fernando Gewandsnajer is the book that best works Biology contents of the second volume of high school.