O uso de história em quadrinhos como recurso didático no ensino de evolução

Abstract

"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution ", this famous phrase published by Russian evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky sums up well the importance that the study of the evolutionary theme has within biology. But what has been seen lately is misunderstanding by most people about the processes that involve the mechanisms of evolution, among them stands out the denial of the process that is mainly due to the linking of religion in this context. Although also frequent, but not always dissociated from this main factor, one can also highlight the lack of preparation of teachers, the scarcity of adequate didactic-pedagogical material and the propagation of erroneous concepts about evolution. Based on this assumption, this work aimed to prepare and apply a comic story about evolution as an educational product that makes it possible to make the teaching approach of this theme more effective. The production was carried out in a class of 3rd year of high School of the State College Professor José Antônio Maia Vinagre in the municipality of Barra do Piraí (RJ) in which first, a sequence of lectures was performed in a traditional way on the theme for the Students. Next, a new class was given on the topic for the class with the reading of the comic book with the theme of evolution, made by the students themselves under the guidance of the teacher. Finally, an analysis of the notes made by the teacher was performed during all meetings in a field diary. After the analysis it was found that although some students presented difficulty both in the creation and in the reading and interpretation of the comics, the proposal proved very valid, as it brought more protagonism to the students making the same agents Knowledge assets In contrast to what is seen in traditional teaching.