Potencialidades pedagógicas do filme Bambi no ensino de ecologia

Abstract

The teacher must analyze and think about his / her practice, aiming at new directions that support in teaching and learning. One of these directions may be commercial movies, which allow for discussion and questioning in several subjects and broad both world and disciplinary issues showing a potential for education and both broad world issues as disciplinary ones, showing a potential for education and teaching Science and Biology. This research aims at analyzing the pedagogical potential of Bambi commercial Movie (USA, 1942) and Bambi II (USA, 2005) for ecology teaching, the contributions of this tool in the classroom and to bring forward considerations about teacher training. The research is a qualitative approach in Education, in which a descriptive and explanatory study related to cinematographic fiction was made. The methodological referral was given by contact with the film, watching it in different ways, with record in a diary and the choice of scenes for analysis. The categories defined after the analyses were: environmental, ecology topics and anthropocentric view. From the analysis it was possible to observe that the films present themes that can be worked in the classroom about environmental aspects as the care and conservation of nature, the contents of Ecology and on aspects of anthropocentric vision. Bambi and Bambi II movies show a potential for teaching, since they allow the understanding of life processes that happen in nature, the discussion of environmental and social issues can assist in the understanding of content and themes from Ecology area for the teaching of Sciences and Biology.