Banca de DEFESA: THIAGO LEANDRO DA SILVA DIAS

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STUDENT : THIAGO LEANDRO DA SILVA DIAS
DATE: 01/12/2022
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: RNP
TITLE:

TEACHING HUMAN EVOLUTION, SOCIOSCIENTIFIC ISSUES
AND ANTI-RACIST EDUCATION: INVESTIGATING EDUCATIONAL
EDUCATIONAL PROTOTYPES

KEY WORDS:

education of ethnic-racial relations, educational design research, human origin
and evolution, biology teaching

PAGES: 290
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUBÁREA: Tópicos Específicos de Educação
SUMMARY:

Considering the social demand registered in legal terms for the implementation of educational
actions to combat racism throughout the school curriculum, the problems and controversies
related to the teaching of human evolution and its link to historical and contemporary ethnicracial relations, as well as the resulting impacts in the teaching and learning of biological and
socially relevant content, with this work we seek to investigate the formulation of educational
practices focused on ethnic-racial relations in the teaching of human biological evolution.
Based on Educational Design Research as a theoretical and methodological framework and
based on the assumptions of anti-racist education, on the historical approach of evolutionary
thinking in science teaching and on the use of socio-scientific issues (QSC), this study aims to
investigate design principles of a Didactic Sequence (SD) on human origin and evolution
conceived with the purpose of promoting education of ethnic-racial relations through the use
of QSC in the context of Biology High School. Thus, we aim to (1) analyze Human Evolution
approaches proposed for High School - and the possible links with the education of ethnicracial relations - through a systematic review of the didactic experiences reported in nationally
published dissertations and theses; (2) investigate the teaching knowledge emerged from a
collaborative teaching-learning experience on human evolution as sources for dialogues with
the education of ethnic-racial relations in the planning of educational innovations; (3) develop
a theoretical framework and systematization of design principles used as foundations for the
construction of an SD and its supporting educational materials; (4) analyze the strengths and
limits of empirically tested design principles from the investigation of two prototypes in
classrooms; and (5) to elaborate an educational curriculum material (ECM) from the use of
QSC conducive to anti-racist sociopolitical action in the Teaching of Human Evolution. Each
specific objective guides, respectively, the construction of one of the chapters of this thesis
that is presented in the format of a collection of articles (multipaper), which dialogue with
each other from the question, foundation and modality of the research. Focusing on the
preliminary stage of the Research in Design, we proceeded to the analysis of the context and
needs, the development of a conceptual framework based on literature and teaching
knowledge, having as a product the systematization of four design principles. We also
developed the prototyping phase that included the design of the didactic intervention and the
investigation of two design principles empirically tested in the real context of a high school
classroom. Due to the fact that this research was crossed by the covid-19 pandemic, we
investigated two prototypes of SD in the contexts of remote/hybrid and face-to-face teaching,
in third-year classes at the Territorial Center for Professional Education of the Jacuípe II
Basin (Riachão do Jacuípe, Bahia). Based on the empirical results that supported the
validation of two design principles, we propose an MCE and a set of QSC for the Teaching of
Human Evolution. We hope that our research contributes to the foundation of educational
innovations that manage to articulate objectives for the education of ethnic-racial relations
with specific contents of human evolution, modalities and pedagogical strategies proper to a
contextualized, problematizing and anti-racist scientific education.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2086934 - JUAN MANUEL SANCHEZ ARTEAGA
Interna - ***.815.045-** - CLAUDIA DE ALENCAR SERRA E SEPULVEDA - UEFS
Interna - 2920919 - BARBARA CARINE SOARES PINHEIRO
Externa à Instituição - LIA MIDORI MEYER NASCIMENTO - UFS
Externo à Instituição - MARCO ANTONIO LEANDRO BARZANO - UEFS
Externo à Instituição - DOUGLAS VERRANGIA