Ética animal e a falácia naturalista: uma questão sociocientífica para fomentar o debate crítico

Abstract

The approach to ethics in teaching has gained space and is promising as an important element to help students in decision-making processes from a critical perspective. This work aimed to develop a potential socio-scientific question for the critical debate on the naturalistic fallacy in the context of high school. And through a review of psychology and literature, discourses on the naturalist fallacy in biology education in Science Teaching were made. We have not noticed a scarce literature that investigates the naturalistic fallacy in Biology Teaching and/or Science Teaching, thus evidencing a huge gap in this formative stage of students. From this, a socioscientific question was developed with the potential to foster critical debate on the naturalistic fallacy, using a case containing controversial questions about the teaching of evolution, a way we treat non-human animals and how we consider their interests in relation to ours.