O ensino sobre drogas no ensino médio: reflexões e desafios

Abstract

The present study has as its central theme the teaching on drugs in high school, based on the development of a didactic sequence embodied in Antoni Zabala (1998). Therefore, the proposed pedagogical intervention aims to understand the conceptions of high school students about licit and illicit drugs. In this sense, a lesson plan with the theme "Drugs" was developed from the didactic unit two of the aforementioned author. The study was developed in a school located in the northern part of Manaus, with students from three groups of the third year of high school in the year 2015. The study uses the qualitative approach. As data collection instruments we used the participant observation recorded in the final report of the supervised stage, the application of a questionnaire and the debate held in the fourth moment of the didactic sequence. It was found that 63% of the students have ever had contact in life with any type of drug that is lawful or illegal. The didactic unit proposed by Zabala (1998) made it possible to broaden the development of scientific knowledge about the proposed theme, pointing out the possibility in biology teaching that surpassed the approaches focused on the memory and reproduction of knowledge, but committed to the social formation of individuals.