Representações pictóricas do desenho animado educativo “O Show da Luna” à luz da semiótica

Abstract

This work has as object of study the pictorial representations elaborated by students of the 2nd year of the First Cycle of Elementary Education of a school of the Municipal Network of Education of Ponta Grossa - PR. The pictorial representations were elaborated from the exhibition of three episodes of the First Season of the educational cartoon "The Show of the Moon", television series produced by Célia Catunda and Kiko Mistrorigo. The animation tells the adventures of a six-year-old girl who is passionate about science. The target audience are children, the cartoon revolves around the character-protagonist Luna, a curious girl, who is constantly in search of answers to the question: What is going on here? In each episode of the series is approached a curiosity involving scientific knowledge. In this section, the objective of the research was to analyze the meanings that the students of the 2nd year of the First Cycle of Elementary School attributed to the aforementioned cartoon. The episodes selected for the survey were: "Sun goes, night comes!", "How does water become rain?" And "Four Moons for Moon". The data were composed by means of annotations in field diary, pictorial representations on the selected episodes, carried out by the students from the didactic sequence "Fun science: learning Sciences with the Show of the Moon", product of this research work, in which they are contained all the activities developed with the students. For the constitution of the data, there were also semi-structured interviews with six students and with the class teacher in order to obtain information about the cartoon, its perceptions and sensations. The method used in the analysis was he categories of Peirce (1839-1914), first / icon, second / index and thirdness / symbol, with reference to the represented object, the three episodes of the cartoon already mentioned above. It is noted that all the pictorial representations analyzed refer to the images present in the episodes of the cartoon, used in the constitution of the data. These pictorial representations elaborated by students are signs that relate in different ways to their object, first as an icon, second as index and third as symbol. The triadric relation made up of Peirce (1839-1914) was what allowed to establish the relation between the pictorial representations elaborated by the students and the present animation. In this context, in light of the above, it is evaluated that the cartoon had influence on the scientific knowledge presented by the students in the classes of constitution of data. That is, after the exhibition of the episodes, through the analysis of the pictorial representations, it was observed that the students knew how to represent the scientific content present in the animation The "Moon Show".