History of science in biology textbooks: concepts of genotype and phenotype
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1982-5153.2018v11n1p333Abstract
The insertion of history and philosophy of science in biology classes of High School is a relevant factor in the teaching and learning process in this school subject. This paper aims to present and discuss the results of a research about how history of science is specified in textbooks. The sample involved 19 books, dated from 1955 to 2006. To analyze the data was used the following elements of the didactic transposition: depersonalization of knowledge, moral/biological ageing and the old/new dialectic. The results demonstrate that the most part of the samples did not reveal the historical aspects about the development of the genotype and phenotype concepts, in which only one of the books analyzed were discussed the historicity of the construction process of this concepts.Downloads
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