Science and Education: A Perspective of Didactic Transposition with Bioinformatics Concepts

Abstract

The large amount of scientific information available nowadays challenges the capacity of students to deal appropriately with it. This may result in a loss of interest on the subject and, thus, create a gap between scientific ideas and the students. In order to avoid this, didactic transposition and interdisciplinary methods might bring in new thoughts on how science education can be improved. In this paper, we discuss the application of those ideas by using Bioinformatics as an example, as it has been an emerging field that is based on interdisciplinary approaches. By improving the teaching of complex ideas and theories, it is possible that the student’s relationship with science, as well as with the educators, may be improved.