Declamando ciências: o estudo da zoologia pelas linhas do cordel.

Abstract

The use of innovative strategies that help in the dynamics of the teaching-learning process is an increasingly recurring need for educational centers, which aim to offer a more integrative and plural education to its students. From a playful perspective, for better knowledge retention and cultural appreciation of the Caatinga fauna, the cordel emerges as a more pleasurable interdisciplinary material in terms of content, working on skills such as writing, speaking, creativity and personal-social performance, while promoting the demystification of popular knowledge regarding local fauna. Given this context, the present work proposed itself as an educational practice, using cordel literature as a didactic tool for teaching Zoology, emphasizing the local animals of the Caatinga through an extension project entitled “Let's biocordear: looks at cordel literature in Zoology teaching. The project lasted six months (June 2022 to December 2022) and was carried out at public school, located in the municipality of Cuité-PB, with the participation of 90 students, students from 2nd years A, B, C and D of the institution. Literary production workshops were held, with meetings related to writing, drawing, exhibition, recitation and dynamics of the content covered, integrating them with the use of cordel. As a result, a collective cordel was produced about the animals of the Caatinga, where the students were able to prepare the stanzas according to the knowledge acquired during the meetings.