TRAINING NEEDS OF SCIENCE TEACHERS CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE

Abstract

The practice of teaching science in education involves a continuous exercise, boosting logical-abstract reasoning from the beginning of schooling. It enhances students' creativity, curiosity and engagement in solving problem situations, contributing to learning in an interdisciplinary way. The objectives of this study are to make explicit, discuss the importance of science teaching, mobilize public policies in the area of ​​education, the need for investment in the qualification of pedagogical practices of science teachers in initial and continued training courses in the area for the initial teaching modalities and also point out the feasibility of exploring the history of science as a qualifying element of pedagogical practices aimed at conceptual elaboration on scientific-technological literacy, today, as a necessary condition for citizens to understand/do/enjoy science. The methodology used was the bibliographical research in texts of the area. It is essential to make the educational community aware of the need to promote continuous professional qualification courses for teachers so that they can position themselves in the face of processes and innovations about which they need to have an opinion in order to legitimize them, because, in the contemporary world, the most important capital of a country is knowledge, however, it depends on the training of people capable of producing it.