Histórias em quadrinhos: recurso lúdico para o ensino de ecologia e meio ambiente

Abstract

The Brazilian educational policy suffers from its devaluation and outdated structure. Thus, science education is also undermined, so that under these aspects it is imperative that there are teachers willing to break paradigms in search of improvement in the quality of teaching and that consequently aim to promote an increase in the success rate in the apprehension of content school by their students. Non-traditional methodological strategies tend to be great tools in the teaching and learning processes, and in their diversity are comic books, which can be seen as an innovative didactic resource, which seeks to exercise creativity, interpretation of texts and creation of figures, besides stimulating reading. The present work aims to investigate the use of comic books as a facilitating tool for the teachinglearning process of sciences and to identify in the comics magazines, subjects pertinent to the topics studied related to the themes of ecology and environmental education, taking as basis qualitative research and participant observation, where community involvement is sought in the analysis of its own reality and is developed based on the interaction between researchers and members of the situation to be investigated. The study was given at EMEF Castro Alves, in João Pessoa, with a class of 25 students from the 9th grade. The data collection was based on the application of a pre-test, followed by the experiences organized in the form of pedagogical workshops, debates, textual productions, material exhibitions for consultation and analysis, followed by a post-test, with the intention of investigating if there was any improvement in learning. Both the pre- and post-test are composed of four identical essay questions. The school has an environment conducive to study, its classrooms are large and lightly airy, desks and chairs in good repair, has a library that does not receive any type of newspapers or periodicals, and most of the students have some difficulty reading and writing. The research results in an expressive number of students who show an interest in reading literature in general and, in particular, reading comics (HQ). The effic acy of the positive relationship between the use of comic books and student learning was demonstrated, so that the whole development of the work was shown to be pleasant and dynamic, stimulating the participation of the students as active agents and beings participating in the construction of their own knowledge and collective knowledge. The work culminated in the presentation of comics produced by the students themselves. It was possible to verify that there was an improvement in the apprehension of the content, and also there was stimulus to reading, increased concentration capacity, as well as an increase in creativity, criticality, problem solving ability and collective awareness of the students.