Revista e-Curriculum
On-line version ISSN 1809-3876
Abstract
KREUZ, Kelly Karine and LEITE, Fabiane de Andrade. Science teacher understandings about curriculum:. e-Curriculum [online]. 2022, vol.20, n.4, pp.1750-1776. Epub Jan 30, 2023. ISSN 1809-3876. https://doi.org/10.23925/1809-3876.2022v20i4p1750-1776.
This study aimed to identify understandings about the curriculum expressed by teachers in the field of Natural Sciences in Brazil. The research carried out is of the qualitative case study type, in which the speeches of teachers working in a public school in the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Sul were analyzed. The categories were identified: content-naive understanding of school curriculum, curricular comprehension under the content-critical perspective and school curriculum under a critical-reflexive understanding. We emphasize that teachers in the field of Natural Sciences show a content-critical understanding in a more recurrent way. The understandings indicate that the curricular speeches are recontextualized in the school spaces and increase the distance between what is proposed in Brazilian curricular guidelines and what is carried out in the context of Basic Education.
Keywords : science teaching; basic education; content-critical.