@article{Maricato+De Andrade Caldeira2017,
author = "Fúlvia E. Maricato and Ana M. De Andrade Caldeira",
title = "{O conceito de interação Biológica/ecológica: contribuição aos estudos em epistemologia da biologia e ao ensino de Biologia}",
year = 2017,
journal = "Acta Scientiarium: Education",
volume = 39,
number = "4",
pages = "441-451",
issn = "21785198",
abstract = "{Epistemology of biology has been the subject of many discussions in the field of Science and Biology education. This study aimed to bring new elaborations to enrich these discussions, highlighting its importance and how this epistemology can be inserted in Science and Biology education. The presented investigation is anchored on three main pillars: (i) some reflections on epistemology of biology; (ii) the importance and vagueness of the concept of biological/ecological interaction in literature; (iii) the empirical investigation on epistemology of biology by this research group. The semiotic analysis allowed us to infer that the research subjects: expressed to understand the importance, amplitude and centrality of this concept to the Biology Knowledge; evolved from a starting vision in which it was only understood the biological interactions with the external environment to one in which we start to understand the biological interactions in several levels of organization thus, advancing from a syncretic/abductive thinking to a deductive reasoning, going through the inductive one; and are concerned on how to teach the studied concept to their future students. This analysis allowed some reflections that can contribute to a creation of a solid epistemology of biology in its many contexts, with the main focus on initial teacher training.}",
keywords = "Biology, Education",
language = "Portuguese, Brazil",
note = "From the Commens Bibliography | \url{http://www.commens.org/bibliography/journal_article/maricato-f%C3%BAlvia-e-de-andrade-caldeira-ana-m-2017-o-conceito-de}"
}
