Raças humanas e raças biológicas em livros didáticos de Biologia de ensino médio

• Ano de defesa: 2007
• Autor(a) principal: Stelling, Luiz Felipe Peçanha
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação; Educação
• Palavras-chave em Português: Educação; Livro didático; Raças humanas; Currículo de biologia; Education; School textbook; Human races; Curriculum of biology; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO
• Link de acesso: https://app.uff.br/riuff/handle/1/17193

Historically, in Biology and Social Sciences, we can note that the conceptions of biological races and human races are polisemic, ambiguous and lack consensus. Nowadays, these conceptions cause controversy and can be used with strong ideological biases. This research examines how those concepts of race are expressed in recent biology school textbooks, six of them recommended by the PNLEM (National Program of Textbooks for High School) and one written by an author well-known in the editorial market of Biology textbooks. The analysed corpus is remarkably heterogeneous regarding the development of concepts of human races : while some books present non verbal texts (photos, etc) as evidence of the existence of human racial groups, other books explicitly deny the existence of races, but use the cultural concept of ethnic groups as an inappropriate synonym for racial groups, or as an intentional form of euphemism. From this analysis emerged categories dividing the corpus into two groups, one similar to the recommendations of PCN+ (National Curricula Parameters), and another group that is antithetical to those recommendations.