Produções bibliográficas relacionadas ao ensino de evolução no mundo: caminhos, vieses e progressos

Abstract

Evolution is a guiding interdisciplinary axis within Biology, which helps to u nderstand the history of Eart h's organisms. Because of its complexity, the teaching of evolutionary science fac es several impasses. The aim of this paper is to reveal the history, current status and trends in evolution al teaching research from a bibliometr ic and multidisciplinary pers pective. Therefore , a bibliometric, descriptive and quantitative research was mad e , using keywords in the Web of Science database, with a time frame from 1994 to 2020. For data analysis, the RStudio software (bibliometrix and b iblioshiny packages) w ere use d and VOSviewer software . The 314 articles found are mostly from countries such as the United States, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Germany and Canada. There is production in several periodicals, especially those of North American orig in. The keywords and publishe d articles refer to works related to the teaching of evolution. It was concluded that there was an increase in the production of articles on this theme of evol utiona l teachi ng , mainly in European and North American countries. B razil, despite being present, needs more investments in the area of research for teaching. In addition, the impo rtance of partnerships in research is emphasized.