Desenhos didáticos de corpos humanos: como integrar biologia, raça e gênero?

Abstract

The objective of this work was to propose didactic drawings of human bodies for main use in Basic Education. To this end, we support the theoretical perspective that human bodies are complex and integrated systems, we present didactic challenges for students to understand this vision and we seek to overcome the lack of body diversity identified in science textbooks. These three pillars, associated with instructional criteria for creating these types of drawings (Postigo; López-Manjón, 2018) and the notion of spatial isomorphism (Cheng; Gilbert, 2015), comprised the theoretical-conceptual elements for creating the drawings. The procedural dimension of creating the drawings involved the use of pencil and paper, an activity complemented with the use of software (IbisPaintX App and Canva platform). We consider that the proposed designs could: (i) contribute to the formulation of textbooks aligned with the theoretical perspectives we discussed; (ii) be used by science teachers in Basic Education, at different levels of education, or even by teachers involved in teacher training; (iii) inspire the creation of other drawings about human bodies, within the scope of research related to scientific education.