A new look at the teaching of Biology: sociocultural-professional approach

Abstract

Professors teaching biology one way or another apply the essential features of the traditional approach to teaching: the recepción- transmission the knowledges supposedly finisheds, decontextualized of scientific and technological development. In this sense, one of contemporary approach to teaching and learning of biology is the sociocultural-professional, whose aim is to contextualize the essence of biological content, in line with the approaches that underlie their teaching and learning, to endow students necessary for the appropriation of knowledge of this discipline in relation to existing and teaching resources for consistent and correct leadership of the teaching-learning so as to guarantee a greater educational effort to learn and teach.
The methods used consisted of documentary review of the literature sources related to the topic, analysis-synthesis, induction, deduction and the historical and logical method, which allowed general conclusions regarding the relevance of the sociocultural-professional perspective on the Biology teacher training. The results offered as a core development of teaching situations from based on problems with sociocultural-professional approach as a starting point for the control and application of biological knowledge learning, so as to ensure greater educational effort to learn and teach.