Cinema and education: the production of audiovisual materials for the teaching of sciences

• Autor(a) principal: Ernst, Priscila
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Silveira, Rosemari Monteiro Castilho Foggiatto, Albarracín, Enrique Sánchez
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/id.v8i1.12037

The aim of this paper is to present the partial results of a study which sought to teach Science (virus and bacteria content) within the scope of a Science Technology and Society (STS) approach, using as a didactical strategy the production of audio-visual materials, specifically stop motion. The main authors underlying the framework of this study are: Feldmann (2009), Chassot (2011), Santos and Auler (2011), Fresquet (2013), and Bazzo (2014). The methodological approach of the study is qualitative, descriptive, with participant observation. The study is being developed with students of secondary education, a group of the 7th grade of a public school in São João do Triunfo - PR, Brazil. The practical tool used is the production of audio-visual materials with the stop motion technique (the process of capturing frame by frame using a camera and a light source). Thus, the students created characters from materials such as modelling clay, drawings, magazine clippings and small objects, to give life and movement to audio-visual materials. The results showed that students became more motivated and interested in the contents addressed. It was also noted that students started to observe and discuss the issues addressed during the Science classes in more critically, making inquiries and relating what was studied with their own lives. The students were concerned with the following issues: the emergence of vaccines; people’s access to them; medicines’ reliability; neglected diseases in the country, among other relevant topics to the reflection process and to its critical reasoning.