Reinventing the teaching of Faunal Biodiversity Contents in the Cuban middle school

Abstract

This article describes a didactic model for the treatment of faunal biodiversity content in the eighth grade Biology subject at the basic secondary educational level in the Cuban context. A qualitative methodology was followed, with an interpretive-hermeneutic approach. The modeled process was based on three subsystems: cognitive, didactic-methodological and axiological-environmental, made up of structural and functional components with a systemic relationship, which allowed the formation of the student's environmental culture to be revealed as a resulting higher-order quality. In its development, theoretical methods were used such as analytical-synthetic, inductive-deductive modeling, systemic-structural-functional and among the empirical methods, document analysis, participant observation and interviews. The methodological organization of the faunal biodiversity content and its didactic approach stand out as results, based on integrating knowledge, skills and values, as well as the ways of meaning local faunal biodiversity by the students. as well as the practices of care, rational use and respect for the different forms of life that inhabit their immediate environmental reality. Finally, the quantitative and qualitative results obtained with the application of the expert evaluation method demonstrate the feasibility, applicability and relevance of the proposal.