scholarly journals Ensino de História Natural e Biologia: reformas educacionais e programas da escola secundária (1920-1951)

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Maria Cristina Ferreira dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Natural History ◽  
History Education ◽  
Biology Education ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Educational Reforms ◽  
Education History ◽  
School Subject ◽  
School Subjects ◽  
Historia Natural

Este estudo tem como tema o ensino de Biologia e História Natural, com foco na história dessas disciplinas escolares e nas mudanças educacionais ocorridas nas décadas de 1920 a 1950 no Brasil. O objetivo foi investigar mudanças e continuidades na constituição dessas disciplinas escolares. Foi realizada uma pesquisa documental, utilizando como fontes programas de ensino, legislação e textos da época. Foram analisados programas de ensino oficiais e do Colégio Pedro II, das disciplinas História Natural e Biologia, dos anos de 1920 a 1951, além da legislação e discursos referentes às reformas educacionais. Houve a permanência de conteúdos de Botânica, Zoologia, Geologia e Mineralogia nos programas do ensino secundário de História Natural desse período. No programa de Biologia de 1943, permaneceram conteúdos botânicos e zoológicos e foram excluídos os geológicos e mineralógicos.  A disciplina escolar Biologia emergiu nos anos 1930 e foi substituída pela História Natural em 1946, mas conteúdos biológicos permaneceram nos programas de 1936 a 1951. Das “lições” e “pontos práticos” nos programas de 1920-30 às metodologias ativas e experimentais dos anos 1930-50, destaca-se a valorização dos fundamentos científicos e de conhecimentos especializados na história da disciplina escolar Biologia no Brasil.Natural History and Biology Education: educational reforms and secondary school programs (1920-1951)AbstractThis study has as its theme the Biology and Natural History Education, focusing on these school subjects’ history and on educational reforms in the 1920s and 1950s in Brazil. The objective was to investigate changes and continuities in the constitution of these school subjects. A documentary research was carried out, taking as sources educational programs, legislation and other texts. Official educational programs and those of Colégio Pedro II of the school subjects Natural History and Biology from the years 1920 to 1951 and the legislation and discourses related to educational reforms were analyzed. Botany, Zoology, Geology and Mineralogy contents remained in the secondary education programs of Natural History from 1920 to 1951. In the Biology program of 1943 remained botanical and zoological contents and geological and mineralogical ones were excluded. The Biology school subject emerged in the 1930s and was replaced by Natural History in 1946, but biological contents were present in the curriculum from 1936 to 1951. From the “lessons” and “practical points” in the 1920-30 programs to the active and experimental methodologies in the 1930s and 1950s, the emphasis on scientific foundations and specialization stands out in the history of science education in Brazil.Keywords: Biology and Natural History Education; School subject; Educational programs; Science Education History.

scholarly journals História da Ciência e relações de gênero: a publicação de “Sir Isaac Newton’s philosophy explained for de use of ladies. In six dialogues on light and colours”

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 325
Author(s):  
Leandro Londero ◽  
Monica Abrantes Galindo ◽  
Marcos Serzedello
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Education History ◽  
Science And Society ◽  
Maternal Role ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender

Resumo: Analisamos na tradução feita para o inglês, por Elisabeth Carter, em 1739, a obra de Francesco Algarotti “Sir Isaac Newton’s philosophy explain’d for the use of ladies. In six dialogues on light and colours”. Buscamos compreender os aspectos que a caracterizam como uma publicação para damas e identificar possíveis questões de gênero. Identificamos na obra uma tendência machista na ciência e elementos que evidenciam um imaginário de que a mulher não teria as qualidades necessárias para compreender a ciência, elementos esses coerentes com a transição de um período em que as mulheres eram consideradas inferiores em todos os aspectos para um outro no qual a construção do papel materno aparece como fundante de uma concepção de mulher não mais inferior, mas fundamentalmente diferente do homem e com papeis complementares a ele. Podemos dizer que esses imaginários podem influenciar as possibilidades de participação das mulheres na empreitada científica.Palavras-chave: Educação em Ciências; História da Ciência; Ciência e Sociedade (Gênero). History of Science and gender relations: a publication of “Sir Isaac Newton’s philosophy explained for de use of ladies. In six dialogues on light and colours”Abstract: We analyze Elisabeth Carter's 1739 translation of Francesco Algarotti's "Sir Isaac Newton's philosophy explain'd for the use of ladies. In six dialogues on light and colors. "We seek to understand the aspects that characterize it as a publication for ladies and to identify possible gender issues. We identified in the work a macho tendency in science and elements that evidence an imaginary that women would not have the qualities necessary to understand science, elements that are consistent with the transition from a period in which women were considered inferior in all respects to a another in which the construction of the maternal role appears as the founder of a conception of woman no longer inferior but fundamentally different from man and with roles complementary to him. We can say that these imaginary can influence the possibilities of participation of women in the scientific enterprise.Keywords: Science Education, History of Science; Science and Society (Gender). 

scholarly journals Body of Knowledge: Renaissance Armor and the Engineering of Mind = Cuerpos del conocimiento: armaduras del Renacimiento y la ingeniería de la mente

2018 ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Felix Jäger
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
The Other ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Personal Authority ◽  
Historia Natural ◽  
The Mind

This essay charts the role of armor in Renaissance practices of knowledge. Since the advent of gunpowder warfare, armor was largely unfit for combat, yet still became a centerpiece of princely representation and was prominently displayed in early collection spaces. Rather than illustrating chivalric virtues or antiquarian taste, such suits in my reading signal a shift towards a physiological fashioning of learning. Through juxtaposing two key sets of armor – one ‘gothic’ suit situated in the studiolo, the other a ‘grotesque’ garniture for a chamber of curiosities –, my paper traces how these embodied settings conflated epistemological with political sensibilities. While the earlier ensemble acted as a mnemonic ‘prosthesis’ that enhanced the mind of the wearer, the latter evoked natural history imagery to remap the order of things around personal authority. Objects of armor thus spotlight the interplay of material and political culture in engineering the early modern subject.El presente ensayo traza el papel de las armaduras en las costumbres renacentistas del conocimiento. Desde la aparición de las armas de pólvora, las armaduras dejaron de ser apropiadas para el combate, si bien todavía constituyeron una pieza central de representaciones principescas y fueron ampliamente expuestas en espacios de colección. En lugar de ilustrar las virtudes caballerescas o los estilos como antigüedades, estas vestimentas señalan, a mi entender, un giro hacia el conocimiento fisiológico de la moda. A través de la yuxtaposición de dos conceptos clave de las armaduras –uno como vestimenta gótica emplazada en el studiolo (taller de arte), otro como decoración «grotesca» en una sala de curiosidades – mi texto indaga cómo estos elementos ajustados al cuerpo confrontaban las sensibilidades epistemológicas y políticas. Mientras que las primeras actuaban como una prótesis que fortalece la mente del que las usa, las segundas evocan la imaginería de la historia natural para recolocar el orden de las cosas alrededor de la autoridad personal. Las armaduras enfocan de este modo la interacción entre la cultura material y la política en el desarrollo del sujeto moderno.

Students’ motivation to study music as compared to other school subjects: A comparison of eight countries

2010 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary E. McPherson ◽  
Susan A. O'Neill
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Task Difficulty ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
School Grade ◽  
School Subject ◽  
Grade Levels ◽  
School Subjects ◽  
Beliefs And Values ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Competence Beliefs

This study draws on an expectancy-value theoretical framework to examine the motivation (competence beliefs, values and task difficulty) of 24,143 students (11,909 females and 10,066 males, aged 9 to 21 years) from eight countries (Brazil n = 1848; China n = 3049; Finland n = 1654; Hong Kong n = 6179; Israel n = 2257; Korea n = 2671; Mexico n = 3613; USA n = 3072). Music was studied in comparison to five other school subjects (art, mother tongue, physical education, mathematics, science) across three school grade levels that included the key transition from elementary to secondary school. Results indicated that music as a school subject was valued less and received lower task difficulty ratings than other school subjects with the exception of art. Students reported higher competence beliefs for physical education and mother tongue compared to music and lower competence beliefs for mathematics and art. There was an overall decline in students’ competence beliefs and values across the school grade levels for all countries except Brazil. Females reported higher competence beliefs and values and lower task difficulty ratings for music, art and mother tongue than males. Males reported higher competence beliefs and lower task difficulty ratings for physical education and mathematics. There were no gender differences for values in mathematics. Music learners reported higher competence beliefs and values and lower task difficulty across school subjects than non-music learners. Secondary analyses were used to further explore differences within each of the eight countries. Findings suggest that once students have experienced learning to play an instrument or voice, they become more motivated towards other school subjects. Implications of the findings suggest that advocacy aimed at increasing the values that students attach to music as a school subject may encourage more students to become music learners across a wide range of countries.

ÁNGEL GUIRAO Y LA ENSEÑANZA DE LA BOTÁNICA. SU PAPEL EN EL DESARROLLO DEL JARDÍN DEL INSTITUTO PROVINCIAL DE SEGUNDA ENSEÑANZA DE MURCIA

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-122
Author(s):  
Jose Pedro Marín Murcia
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Royal Botanic Garden ◽  
The Other ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
Historia Natural ◽  
Practical Teaching

Resumen El objetivo de este trabajo es doble. En primer lugar, estudiamos la figura y la obra del médico y naturalista Ángel Guirao Navarro al frente del Instituto Provincial de Segunda Enseñanza de Murcia. Este polifacético profesor tuvo un importante rol en el desarrollo de los espacios escolares para la enseñanza práctica de la Historia Natural, dándoles contenido con la aportación de objetos naturales recolectados por él o adquiridos por el Instituto. También analizamos los materiales de apoyo para esa enseñanza como: los libros de texto, el herbario y las láminas de pared. Por otro lado, estudiamos el espacio utilizado para la enseñanza práctica de la Botánica y la Agricultura. El papel de Ángel Guirao en el desarrollo del Jardín Botánico fue clave para que este se convirtiera en uno de los jardines educativos más completos de España con la construcción de invernaderos de cristal, umbráculos, pabellón docente y la adquisición de plantas y semillas facilitadas por el Jardín Botánico de Valencia, el Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid y el Instituto Agronómico de la Moncloa. Abstract The goal of this paper is twofold. First, we study the figure and work of the medicine doctor and naturalist Ángel Guirao Navarro, head of the Secondary School of Murcia. This versatile teacher played an important role in the development of scholar spaces for the practical teaching of Natural History by contributing with natural objects collected by him or acquired by the Secondary School of Murcia. We also analyse the pedagogical materials for this teaching such as: textbooks, herbarium and wall papers. On the other hand, we study the space used for the practical teaching of botany and agriculture. The role of Ángel Guirao in the development of the Botanical Garden was key for it to become one of the most complete educative gardens of Spain with the construction of glass greenhouses, shade structures, one teaching pavilion, as well as the acquisition of plants and seeds provided by the Botanical Garden of Valencia, the Royal Botanic Garden of Madrid and the Agronomic Institute of La Moncloa. Palabras claves: Botánica, Historia Natural, educación, espacios escolares, enseñanza de la botánica, jardines botánicos. Key words: Botany, Natural History, education, scholar spaces, teaching of botany, botanical gardens.

Attitudes toward Computers: Validation of a Computer Attitudes Scale

1987 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
George G. Bear ◽  
Herbert C. Richards ◽  
Paul Lancaster
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Rural Schools ◽  
Item Analysis ◽  
Computer Attitudes ◽  
Attitudes Toward Computers ◽  
Attitudes Toward School ◽  
School Subject ◽  
Career Plans ◽  
School Subjects ◽  
Preliminary Version

A preliminary version of a scale to measure attitudes toward computers, the Bath County Computer Attitudes Scale (BCCAS), was developed and piloted on 398 students in grades 4 through 12 who were attending three rural schools in western Virginia. This instrument consisted of thirty-eight Likert items. The scale was judged to be unidimensional and internally consistent. With the aid of an item analysis, the number of items was reduced to twenty-six. The revised BCCAS was administered to 551 students whose demographic make-up was similar to those who participated in the pilot study. The BCCAS scores were found to be predictably related to computer experience and usage, educational and career plans, choice of favorite school subject, and attitudes toward school subjects. In general, the data supported the validity of the BCCAS as a measure of computer attitudes.

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