O uso de jogos de tabuleiro como forma de apropriação do conhecimento para combate do Aedes aegypti e arboviroses relacionadas

Abstract

A challenge to public health, the number of cases of arbovirosis transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito had a very significant increase during the pandemic period of COVID-19. The reduction of the vector’s breeding sites is the main combat strategy used by health agencies, but the scientific community has proposed educational measures in order to stimulate the population to monitor at home. In this sense, by facilitating a dialogue contextualized with the realities of the population, educational games can be designed to stimulate debates that consider health in a broad way, which can be very important when it comes to arboviroses. In this research, a literature review was developed to map, in Brazil, the board games related to Ae. aegypti and its arboviroses and analyze their effectiveness regarding the appropriation of knowledge in order to combat the problem. This paper analyzed 13 ludopedagogical proposals with board games published between 2017 and 2022 and concluded that although the works showed concern for interaction with students, the approaches focused on memorization of content. In addition, the games did not encourage discussion about the context in which the community was inserted and its correlation with the proliferation of the mosquito.