Natural History and Environmental Education in Dialogue in Science Teaching

ABSTRACT

This paper analyzes pedagogical experiences of a Science teacher who taught in a Rio de Janeiro’s public school between the 1960s and 1990s. Her experiences relate to a singular pedagogical action structured by building and maintaining a zoo where wild animals were protected and used in didactic activities under ecological-evolutionary perspectives and on behalf of the conservation of wild fauna. The paper discusses the changes in the teacher’s practices that was originated by re-significations of naturalistic traditions, appropriated during her initial formation in Natural History in the face of the increasing influence of the field of Environmental Education over the years.

Keywords
History of Science Education; Life History; Curriculum