The teaching of evolution in two disciplines: Natural Sciences of primary education and Biology of secondary and higher secondary education, and its improvement in Cuba.

Abstract

This article presents the problem of the teaching of evolution in general education, educational importance and a review of the results of the design of the contents on the evolution in the third improvement of the Cuban general education, with a strong presence in guiding ideas, axes of programming, content approaches, objectives and contents of two disciplines: Natural Sciences of primary education and Biology of secondary and higher secondary education. In relation to the previous stages, the evolution continues to be valued in the curricular documents and a greater impact is projected on the scientific training of the students from methodological proposals based on a developing and formative conception of the teaching-learning process.