Os genes e o câncer: estudando e construindo histórias em quadrinhos para compreender o câncer como uma doença genética

Abstract

Within the teaching of Biology there is a wide variety of contents to be worked on, we highlight, in this work, the teaching of Genetics and health, from the perspective of the process of scientific literacy (CA) and contextualization. In these processes, the teacher must foster, in the student, the acquisition of biological knowledge, the mastery of concepts that allow them to understand the scientific aspects involved, for example, in a disease, seeking to bring the contents of the disciplines of the students' daily lives together, so that they can expand their understanding of reality and perceive more meaning in knowledge. Thus, this work has as a general objective to develop and analyze a didactic sequence (SD) that can help to understand cancer as a genetic disease, using mainly the study and elaboration of stories comic books (comics) as a didactic modality. In addition to this, other modalities were used in the sequence, such as dramatic reading, video, discursive questions and interpretation of textbooks with systematization of knowledge through production authoring of comics by students, stimulating their protagonism. That said, reading, study and production of comic books intends to make teaching more playful, creative, bringing together the biological contents of the student's reality. In this bias, the DS was analyzed regarding the presence of the axes, indicators and categories of questions that encourage AC and contextualization and also the compatibility of its objectives and methodology with educational principles contained in official normative documents of education.