Nas trilhas de Clio e Hígia: representações imagéticas da COVID-19 e perspectivas da história das doenças no ensino de História (2020-2021)

Abstract

The present study aims to understand the journey of Covid-19 in Piaui scenery, as a conductor wire to the History of Health and Deseases teaching. In this sense, the work approaches the interconnections between teaching/learning History in nowadays scenery in the pandemic context of the new choronavirus SARS-CoV-2, in the years of 2020 and mid of 2021 pointing out the challenges and possibilities of the study in “remot format” as a consequence of the social distancing measures, just as strategy of thinking historiographic concepts like time, space, subjects, state, culture, politics in classes. Methodologically, the study centralized the analysis in the perspective of the usability of cartoon image and their representations as way to the present teaching modality, with the application of questionnaires to high school students at Paulo Ferraz School through survey-type research. The teoritical- methodological rose up from concerning readings to the main concepts mentioned in this work, which are – History of Health and Deasease from Stefan Cunha Ujvari (2020), Dominichi Miranda de Sá, Vanessa Sardinha dos Santos (2021), Diego de Oliveira Sousa (2020), Jeanette Farrell (2003), Joseanne Marinho (2018), Valtéria Alvarenga (2013) et al; History Teaching in Luís Fernando Cerri (2011) and Guilherme Mendes Tomaz dos Santos (2021); History and Images in the approaches of Alberto Manguel (2018) and Eduardo França Paiva (2006) – in special cartoons, politics and Representations – with Roger Chartier and René Rémond (2003). Thus, the concepts and their contributions permeate the 3 chapters based in the present theme as an interlink of experiences which were constructed through the events of living and challenges contemporaries present to those who make school environment. Related to their several matrices, they make clear this reality about some aspects of History teaching with students of elementary school and the use of images na encouraging vehicle of improvement in the teaching/learning process in times of the waited “new normal”. Times of virtual makings and livings that point out different routine based in learning. Changings that were imposed by Covid-19 pandemic and other deseases that desolated the world like Black Death and Spanish Flu, in present can improve learnings and/or highlight sociocultural inequalities even more in the sense of not supporting the fundamental purpose of education: the success of teaching-learning.