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This qualitative article aims to understand the historical and methodological path of action research in the field of Basic Education teacher training in Brazil. For that, it was organized the investigation in two stages. First, it is historically contextualized the action research in the field of teacher education in Brazil. In the second stage -- with information collected from the descriptors Action research, Continuing teacher education, and Basic Education --, it was analyzed the abstracts of 151 theses and dissertations available in the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations database, published between 2000 and 2020. Based on Thiollent (2009), Toledo and Jacobi (2013), Tripp (2005), Saul (2010), Larocca, Rosso and Sousa (2005), and André (2001) theoretical contributions, the analysis indicates an ascendent process during the five decades of action research insertion in teacher education, under the strong influence of Paulo Freire in the first stage, corresponding to the period from 1971 to 2002. In the last two decades, relative to the period from 2000 to 2020, the terms used for action research in the field of teacher education have diversified. Regarding the objectives presented, especially in the last decade (2011 to 2020), it is observed dispersion concerning the intentionality of research and the methodological path, since many objectives do not signal an intention to solve the problem situation or intervene in the research field, according to the action research's theoretical assumptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to make a brief contribution to the COVID-19 pandemic issue, regarding the students’ awareness of the disease and its forms of transmission. The main objective, through the comic book La Dansarina, is to promote a better understanding of the pandemic, by means of the comparison with the Spanish Flu. Thus, it is expected to make students accept the decisions of the health agencies and carry out such teachings. The methodology used in the study was bibliographic. As a main result, it was verified that a comparison between the two pandemics — through an artistic work — can motivate and arouse students’ due to their ludic bias. As conclusions, we can highlight that information can be the greatest weapon in the fight against a disease that spreads through social life and a well-told story can be more useful than news’ numbers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a synthesis a final paper, linked to the scientific initiation, carried out in the pedagogy course. The intention of this article is to demonstrate the students' approach with the Sequential Art / Comics, in the sense to produce a significant learning of the Portuguese language content. The experience aimed to analyze the language of Sequential Art / Comics in Portuguese classes, providing the training of teachers to use this teaching tool in the school environment. Methodologically, we made use of a qualitative research, using the case study and participant observation. Thus, it was possible to infer about the language aspects of Sequential Art / Comics used in elementary school by teachers, in order to promote its use in the classroom. We proposed strategies for using the multiple languages found in Sequential Art. As a result, we could observe that there are flaws in the design and use of different resources in the classroom that arouse the interest of students; we observed, as well, that they can be stimulated through materials that do not require high investments, since they are available to everyone. We conclude that the encouragement to learn the language and its different functions — such as interpretation, reading habits and textual understanding —, are factors that need to be addressed more by teachers, from their professional training to their teaching practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]