Abstract

PORTO, Paulo Roberto de Araújo  and  FALCAO, Eliane Brígida Morais. THEORY OF THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF LIFE: DILEMMAS AND CHALLENGES IN HIGH SCHOOL. Ens. Pesqui. Educ. Ciênc. [online]. 2010, vol.12, n.3, pp.13-30. ISSN 1983-2117.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1983-21172010120302.

This work analyses the social representation of high school students group in a catholic school about the origin os living things, high lighting the man and woman arising. Its was foccused trough the subject collective discourse (SCD) methodology. The results shows that the ana lyzed group has vigorous religious characteristics althrough opened to sci entific explication. Their discourses revealed religious influence, but it did not denote that those were obstacles for dread the teaching content the scientific scope. They showed, before, fault sign in approach school topic. In their social representations, the family's influence seems to be more important than the ones from school activities.

Keywords : Science and religion; origin and living things evolution; biology teaching..

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