História em quadrinhos do Homem-Formiga: a pedagogia cultural e as representações de ciência

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze under the focus of Cultural Studies and Cultural Pedagogy, the articulations on science and scientist found in the Ant-Man comics, pointing out how these materials act as powerful cultural productions in building a scientific knowledge in this context of science of superheroes. In order to enrich the discussions of the analysis stage of the work, it was carried out bibliographical research in previous academic productions both to evaluate how the use of comics has been proposed in science teaching and in chemistry teaching, as to investigate what have been the conceptions of science and especially of scientists presented by students at different levels of education. The analyzed stories were taken from three comic books published in Brazil, which compiled the main stories of Ant-Man since its creation in 1962. For the construction of the corpus and the themes of analysis, the Discourse Analysis methodology was used, which allowed a more accuratereading of the materials from which the discourse excerpts were selected. With the analysis, were found more representations on the figure of the scientist than on the science itself. In these representations, the tereotyped characteristics usually attributed to the scientists by the students remained, which demonstrates a reinforcement that comics as powerful media forms give at the misconceptions about science that are part of the common imaginary. It is desired with this research, to highlight the need for a reflective practice about the scientific representations and pedagogical practices that permeate the comics, since they are also means of communication capable of directing the perceptions of their public in relation to the subjects presented therein, including on what is and for whom is the science.