Educação em Saúde: a utilização da história em quadrinhos como estratégia para a aprendizagem das parasitoses intestinais no ensino fundamental

Abstract

The intestinal parasitosis affects a high number of children and teenagers during their school period, causing great damage to their health as well as their learning capacity. Our aim was to evaluate the use of cartoon stories as a strategy for learning about intestinal parasitosis with students of the 8 grade of Junior High School in a municipal school in Belo Horizonte. A questionnaire was applied to evaluate the previous conceptions the students had about parasites. After analyses of this information, some theoretical classes about Ascaris lumbricoides, Taenia solium and Taenia saginata and Giardia lamblia were ministered. As an intervention, it was proposed that the students created cartoon stories. Through a post-intervention questionnaire it was verified that the use of cartoon stories not only contributed for the students’ learning but also helped them become active agents in the learning process and agents of change in the school, family and society regarding parasitic diseases.