O ensino de ciências e a arte do cinema: diálogos e cenas da sétima arte com a prática docente

Abstract

Natural Sciences face a challenge in continuing to seek pleasure through the discovery of knowledge. Research has shown that students are not interested in learning these Sciences, suggesting strategies to overcome this situation. From this perspective, we present the teaching of Natural Sciences in dialogue with Art, investigating the contributions of a pedagogical activity in elementary education that articulates film works and the teaching of Natural Sciences, providing better practice in the area researched. We used animated films in sixth and seventh grade classes of elementary school in a municipal school in Fortaleza. David Ausubel’s (1982) Theory of Meaningful Learning is presented as the basis for the research, based on the methodology of cooperative and supportive learning, with the intention of promoting learning in a cooperative process. The intervention associated the emotional as a basis in which reason and affectivity are linked in the appropriation of knowledge. The meetings were recorded in a logbook that was transformed into a narrative. The qualitative research in the field of planned experience narration focused on the experiences of the researcher-narrator. The intervention meetings were subjected to content analysis based on Laurence Bardin (2020) to reveal intentions included in thoughts and attitudes. In the units of analysis, we considered the previous content, the contribution to learning, the emotional and cognitive engagement, the interconnection between science and animated films, and the difficulties and surprises throughout the research. At the end of the investigation, we found a favorable contribution of animated films in the teaching-learning processes in the area of natural sciences. The research generated an educational product, an e-book, as a point of guidance for teachers and researchers who plan their didacticpedagogical actions in the construction of spaces that favor meaningful learning.