HISTÓRIAS EM QUADRINHOS PARA A POPULAÇÃO DA CIÊNCIAS NA EDUCAÇÃO BÁSICA

Abstract

Motivated and inspired by the relevant issues that sustain the initiatives of popularization of science and the use of instruments/resources to work on scientific findings, we dedicated to drawing up a comic strip in partnership with authors of different Brazilian scientific articles published in important international journals. From theoretical and exploratory research with a technique of non-systematic review of the 12 articles were selected in the literature. The articles served as a basis for the construction of the scenarios, plots, and characters of the stories that, taken together, have the intention to popularize the selected studies, adhering to a cartoon style with language accessible to basic education students. In the end, we invite the authors (n = 87) of all articles to be appraised as elaborated stories and to give out general positions about them. Our results reveal that it is possible to popularize technical-scientific articles means through comic strips aimed at students of basic education. The elaborated stories encompass miscellaneous topics and issues, with Insertion in the areas of Health Sciences and Environmental Sciences. The authors of the articles who participated in our study not only contributed to the enhancement of the stories, as well as consider them cohesive with the content of their articles, in addition to having presented scenarios, plots, and characters that facilitate understanding by part of the target audience. Therefore, our study provides creative educational resources and groundbreaking that can be used in different educational contexts, contributing, therefore, to the popularization of Science at the basic level of Brazilian education.