A Influência das crenças religiosas na aprendizagem de Ciências Biológicas em uma escola de Águas Lindas de Goiás – GO

Abstract

Creationism is used by religious people to explain the emergence of life and man on planet Earth. According to this theory, life would have appeared out of nowhere by divine creation, contradicting the most accepted academic theories to date. In this context, the proposed research had the general objective of analyzing the impacts of religious beliefs on the teaching of biological sciences in a school in the municipality of Águas Lindas de Goiás, highlighting those issues related to the biological evolution of living beings and the origin of life, through data collection to know the religious positioning of students and their frequency of worship. Specific objectives of the research: to map students on which religions they belong to and their frequency of worship; assess whether students accept academic theories related to biology teaching (themes on the origin of life and evolutionary theory); identify whether students have creationism as a basis for some questions related to the teaching of biological sciences. In the research, an investigation questionnaire was applied to 23 students in four classes. The first part of the questionnaire aimed to collect identification data such as: age, sex, color, religious affiliation and worship frequency. The second part was composed of objective questions and a discursive one related to learning biology teaching topics such as: origin of life and evolution of living beings. We understand that the quantitative questionnaire is a data collection technique, as it was possible to assess students' knowledge of issues related to biological sciences and see the influence of religious beliefs on their answers.