Parasitologia e educação: memes e histórias em quadrinhos como ferramentas de ensino

Abstract

Parasitic diseases affect thousands of people around the world due to issues related to lack of basic sanitation, poor hygiene measures and access to drinking water. Health and education institutions invest in actions to raise awareness of the population regarding prevention and treatment attitudes. In the dissemination tools, linguistic and cultural barriers can be perceived that prevent the understanding and internalization of the knowledge to be worked on. In the teaching-learning process, the tools must bring clarity to the themes and allow for more effective learning. It is possible to use comics and other textual genres as they are elements of easy adaptation of language, images and present situations experienced by the interlocutors. The objective of this work was to create both educational and attractive tools with greater ease of contextualization and internalization to be distributed physically (printed) and digitally (digital platforms) addressing topics of parasitology. In this work, memes and types of comics with parasitology themes were elaborated, distributed through an account on Instagram and an application mounted on the Fábrica de Aplicativos platform receiving the name of “Parasitos e HQ`s” on both platforms. The productions were accepted by the majority of users who expressed their opinions, praise, criticism and suggestions through comments and likes on Instagram and a Google form in the application. It was observed that the majority of users were between 22 and 30 years old and had higher or secondary education. Most found the creations fun, easy to understand and that contributed to learning. The suggestions will allow for better adaptation and continuous improvement over the time that the tools will be available on the platforms. It is concluded that the creation of such textual genres can attract attention and promote the contextualization and internalization of themes of parasitology and that the distribution through social networks of these tools is easy, fast and effective.