Uma questão sociocientífica como proposta para promover o debate crítico sobre o racismo no contexto do ensino de genética

Abstract

Racism has gained more and more strength over the centuries, and perhaps today it is found in the most silent and brutal form possible, that is, structural and veiled. The teaching of genetics can be totally linked to opposing the role of biology in the 18th and 19th centuries, where it was used to inferiorize black people, so that current genetic arguments show us the non-existence of human races, from the point of view biological. In this sense, the role of biology teaching becomes essential for raising such discussions within the classroom so that anti-racist perspectives can be mobilized. This work aims to develop a teaching tool that helps in the fight against racism (anti-racist education), for this purpose, a socio-scientific question was developed, so that it can, from there, promote discussion about racism within the school context of high school, in classes involving content related to genetics. The work was carried out within a qualitative perspective linked to Educational Design research, which encompasses the creation and development of educational projects and evaluations of pedagogical interventions, serving as a solution to complex problems that may exist within the field of educational practice. In this sense, it is essential that the role of Biology teaching is also to raise such discussions within the classroom to mobilize anti-racist perspectives.