EXPERIENTIAL KNOWLEDGE: REFLECTIONS OVER THE PRACTICES IN TEACHING SCIENCE AND BIOLOGY

This investigation has as goal to analyze the Brazilian academic research about experiential knowledge related to Sciences and Biology teaching, presented in the form of theses and dissertations between the years of 2005 and 2012. The study is of qualitative nature and the analysis corpus was composed by thirty academic productions, of which twenty-seven dissertations and three theses. For the present information analysis in these documents, we applied the Thematic Content Analysis. The results of this research leads to the versatility of the experiential knowledge and its different forms of manifestation. Besides that, we verified that the experiential knowledge, for being a practical knowledge about the practice, contributes to "being a teacher" and helps in various ways on the execution of the pedagogical practice.