TO ENGAGE IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS OF A SEQUENTIAL ART FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHER TRAINING

Abstract

Creativity has been pointed out as an important element in today's professional and personal training, and this also applies to teachers, including considering that it is teachers who will train new generations of creative people. This work focuses on the analysis of a teacher training process based on the promotion of creativity taught to undergraduate students in Biological Sciences at a Brazilian federal university. The proposed dynamic took place in a mandatory course that discusses imagery languages and the teaching of Biology, with a practical exercise of creating Comics for the purpose of scientific dissemination; the context of this production was that of the Covid-19 pandemic, when the phenomenon of fake news gained alarming contours referring to scientific denialism and anti-vaccine movements. The results pointed to different approaches given by the students: (a) political-social, through narratives that denounce public policies and greater vulnerability of poor people, (b) environmental, referring to the impact of the disposal of protective equipment widely used in this period and (c) technical-scientific seeking to explain the performance of the immune system and the role of vaccines. The creative processes involved bibliographic and documentary research to gather reliable information, search for various references as a source of inspiration for the elaboration of characters, scenarios and scripts of the stories, as well as the need for synthesis and adaptation of the language to communicate to a wide audience, which certainly contributed to the training of future teachers.