Utilização de Veículos Alternativos de Comunicação para a Difusão do Conhecimento Paleontológico.

• Main Authors: Ana Carolina Gelmini de Faria, Ana Carolina Maciel Vieira, Deusana Maria da Costa Machado, Juliana Silva de Matos, Luiza Corral Martins de Oliveira Ponciano, Mariana Gonzales Leandro Novaes
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2007-07-01
• Series: Anuário do Instituto de Geociências
• Subjects: Paleontology; Communication; Media
• Online Access: http://www.anuario.igeo.ufrj.br/anuario_2007_1/2007_1_168_174.pdf

Paleontology teaching must be an usual subject in the cultural formation. It is from it that man understands the history ofEarth and its evolutionary process, giving a new look and perspective of what behaviors a society must adopt. In order that teaching of paleontology subjects gets a response back from society, other methods beside the basic didactic books must be explored for diffusion of educational and informative message, whit less academic terms and more attractively. Searching alternatives to fill such necessities, some of the available options are: Games, expositions, animations/documentaries and paradidactic books. These media have already been used by many scholars in the area, but can always be reworked and explored. The Laboratório de Estudos de ComunidadesPaleozóicas (LECP) of the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) has been using one of these alternatives.It is a project of elaboration of paradidactic books that a language directed to the infant-juvenile people was adopted to introducepaleontological concepts and fossiliferous localities – Maecuru e Ererê Formations (Amazonas Basin) – from Devonian Period. Thereferred project, although using a resource already available in Paleontology teaching, is innovator, because it deals with Brazilianformations of a geologic period unknown by the population. By alternative educational proposes the paleontology consolidates newprocess of interdisciplinary, necessary for diversified divulgation of its subjects. This new paleontology vision, when assimilated by the society, allow a conscientization about the biologics and non-biologics process that have occurred along the geologic time. A holistic conscience of the evolution of the Earth would help in the formation of a new society, which is already worrying about the balance and availability of the natural resources.