Investigação das concepções espontâneas sobre câncer e suas possíveis implicações como tema transversal na educação para a saúde

Abstract

This study is a qualitative study carried out from the analysis of students' spontaneous conceptions about cancer as a transversal theme in health education, which aimed to discover spontaneous conceptions of high school students and teachers about cancer by offering subsidies for the development of new pedagogical strategies for education for health, such as cross-cutting theme. In this study conducted an analysis from a collection of data involving two public schools in the city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, with 527 students in 2009. A questionnaire was used with an open question, with the question: What is Cancer to you? The results revealed that participating students have knowledge about the disease, but in a non-scientific. It was found that the students related to cancer death, evil and kindness, also the prognosis, pathophysiology, etiology, people, population incident, transmission and sign. These data show that the conceptions of the learners are far from scientific concepts, reinforcing the importance of prior assessment of the same. Given the importance of cancer and the importance of preconceptions in meaningful learning, this study grants for the establishment of political and pedagogical strategies that contribute to the health education as a transversal theme. In what it refers to the Education for the Health, this study it considers that the cancer is an illness of great relevance, that must be part of the transversal theme in the schools, inserted in Parameters Curriculum National (PCN) informing and preparing the citizens so that they can act with responsibility in relation to its health.