Plataforma "Aula Paraná": a temática drogas nas videoaulas de ciências durante a pandemia

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic, which began in January 2020, brought about profound social and educational changes, including the suspension of in-person classes in Paraná and the implementation of the "Aula Paraná" project in a remote learning format. Although the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC) reduced the explicit treatment of the topic of drugs, the theme remained present in some grade levels of the "Aula Paraná" program. This study aimed to analyze how the theme of "drugs" was addressed in the video lessons available on the Aula Paraná platform and how it was incorporated into the teaching and learning processes in Science classes, even after the return to in-person instruction. This qualitative research adopted Content Analysis as its methodological approach, based on the frameworks proposed by Bardin (1977) and Moraes (1999). The video lessons were examined using three predefined units of analysis: Effects on Health, Social Effects, and Effects on the Nervous System, with the goal of identifying the presence of the theme, the manner of its presentation, and the language used. The analysis of Science classes for Elementary School students (6th to 9th grade) revealed that only five lessons featured titles directly related to the units of analysis on the topic of drugs. Overall, the study found that the theme was addressed in a superficial manner, with definitions limited to legal and illegal substances and brief mentions of anabolic steroids, medications, alcohol, and cigarettes—each referenced only once throughout the analyzed content