Análise das relações ecológicas em livros didáticos no ensino médio e superior

Abstract

The teaching of ecology has as one of its bases the study of ecological relationships, where the phyla interact in different ways, and the understanding of how this interaction takes place is of paramount importance to understand the functioning of ecology and the natural sciences, consequently. Since the textbook is the pillar that supports student and teacher in this path, the present work focuses on the analysis of high school and higher education textbooks, with an emphasis on ecological relationships. Using bibliographic analysis, three high school textbooks and three higher education textbooks were analyzed. Under qualitative and quantitative analysis, using as evaluative criteria, omission, depth and clarity of content, approach to the theme including examples of Brazilian origin, quality and quantity of images to exemplify. It was observed that there is no synergy between the analyzed high school and higher education materials, sometimes due to omission of concepts, sometimes due to excess information without any connection between them, making the concepts displaced without a real notion of ecological dynamics. Demonstrating that there is a need to adjust the scope of terms and their interconnection, so that their language becomes more objective and understandable.