Biology training teachers and semiological analysis of cartoon published by Ciência Hoje das Crianças Journal

Abstract

Teacher training in Brazil has been undergoing continuous and complex transformations, which I have increasingly required attitudes according to our time. It is necessary to train people to critically understand messages - of any nature - as proclaimed by the UNESCO international document with professional competence. However, this development requires changes to a curricular restructuring in undergraduate courses in Brazil. Do the undergraduate courses have teaching repertoires for the understanding of competences related to Media Literacy and Information Literacy (AMI), as proposed by UNESCO? Our objectives in this research were: (a) to investigate and present conceptions of teachers in formation about a cartoon published in a supplement to the journal Science Today of Children aimed at children and adolescents and (b) to present a semiological structural analysis of imaging elements constant of the same cartoon from the barthesian theoretical reference. The results suggest that: (1) licensees and undergraduates mostly performed a non-depth reading of the presented cartoon; (2) the cartoon, in general, performs for itself a "society reading" just like the author who produced it. It is vital to understand the way in which these people shape a particular society's reading of cartoon.

Keywords

• semiologia
• imagem
• cartum