Os mapas conceituais como ferramenta auxiliar no ensino-aprendizado de anatomia do aparelho locomotor

Abstract

Human Anatomy (HA) is the science that studies the human body macro and microscopically. The locomotor system (AL) is composed of three systems: the skeletal, joint and muscular systems. It has an extensive academic content that is difficult to assimilate, and is usually exposed in the first period of graduation. It is an essential discipline for students in the health area and serves as a basis for the following disciplines. Traditionally, teaching focuses on the teacher, who owns the content, and it is up to the students only to reproduce it, without learning effectively. Thus, new active teaching methodologies have been used, with the aim of making the teaching-learning process a two-way street. The Conceptual Map is an active methodology, which organizes the main concepts of a given subject, in a graphic way, helping in long-term learning. Thus, the objective of this work is to study and produce conceptual maps (CMs) as a complementary tool in the teaching-learning of LA. A survey was made of all the content that covers the AL, in the discipline's textbooks and in scientific articles for deepening. After synthesizing the content, the conceptual maps were prepared using the CmapTools® software, in a standardized way, and the colors were chosen without specific criteria. As a result, thirteen CMs were prepared that present an overview of the main concepts of LA. The CMs have in fact proved to be a tool to integrate anatomy teaching, with the short time to teach classes, since they can be made available ready-made. Therefore, the material produced by this work should be organized and made available to the academic community and health professionals as complementary didactic material.