Anatomy in science education

analyzing and understanding students' perceptions of the importance of the human body

Abstract

Anatomy, the science that studies the structural organization of living beings, is one of the oldest basic medical sciences that arouses or interests young people and adults. In this way, realizing how the human body is constituted and understanding its importance is vital for better physical and mental development. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to identify, analyze and understand the perception of two students about the importance of teaching anatomy for the understanding of the human body, and not teaching science. The research was carried out in the city of Natal, State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, in two municipal public schools with 100 students in the 8th grade of Fundamental Education II. Students will show great interest in human body anatomy classes (74%) and will agree with the evidence of the importance of studying the human body (91%), not teaching science from practical classes (98%), not what encourages them the most. they learn (89%), having greater ease in the teaching-learning process (100%) in human anatomy, mainly with the contents that interest them most, such as the reproductive system (45%) and skeletal and cartilaginous (21%). However, there are difficulties in topics such as the endocrine system (51%) and nervous system (23%), largely due to the need to expand practical, dynamic and field classes to guarantee better quality teaching of human anatomy than the basic education. It is concluded, therefore, that some students believe that it is very important to study the human body through anatomy content, not that it is possible to study the parts or the whole in an integrated way, through theoretical and practical classes, always in an complementary form.