Zoology teaching in Brazil from early childhood education to high school: a categorical conceptual analysis of the Base Nacional Comum Curricular

The current Common National Curriculum Base (CNCB) was approved to comprise a guiding document for the curricular construction of Brazilian elementary schools. Through discursive textual analysis, this article analyzes Zoology content CNCB from early childhood education high school. results indicate discourses archaic 19th century zoology, morphophysiological and classificatory nature, absence bioscience aimed at lack updated proposals its teaching-learning process. We conclude that teaching as presented by proposes strictly conceptual linear approaches, does not promote quality scientific education.