ACTIVE METHODOLOGIES IN BIOLOGY CLASSES IN HIGH SCHOOL

Abstract

Education has been undergoing changes, leaving the traditional view that the teacher is the central figure and students are just recipients of content in a mechanical way. Thus, it is increasingly necessary to search for new teaching methods that allow a more diversified class. Active methodologies in biology teaching are very important, as they allow students to become more participatory and protagonists, thus learning in a significant way. However, the objective of this bibliographic review work is to analyze the contributions of active methodologies used in biology classes in high school. With this, bibliographic searches were selected in scientific works on Google Scholar published from 2018 to 2022, aiming at references that addressed information about active methodologies and biology teaching in high school with the descriptors: Biology, Active Methodologies and Teaching Strategies. In the theoretical foundation we present three categories: Historical Context, Biology Teaching, Active Methodologies. The selection was made through the title and the reading of the abstracts, those that were closest to the subject were collected for study, those that did not deal with active methodologies were excluded. In the results we show that active methodologies have been increasingly widespread in biology teaching. However, there are still few works on this aforementioned topic. The conclusions show that, through the analyzed works, there is a great need to adopt active methodologies in biology teaching. They are fundamental for achieving the teaching objectives, as well as constituting ways of altering traditional teaching, as they bring greater autonomy to the student.