O contexto pandêmico e o uso de psicofármacos como tema gerador para o ensino do conteúdo de funções orgânicas

Abstract

The social isolation combined with insecurity and fear due to Covid-19 pandemic, significantly increased the demand for drugs to treat diseases such as insomnia, anxiety and depression. This work uses the pandemic context and the psychopharmaceuticals as a generator theme for the organic functions, which is part of third year chemistry subjects. The intention behind it is to highlightthe main organic functions on the chemical structures of the most sought-after drugs in Brazil during the pandemic and link those with the most common organic functions studied in Brazilian schools’ final year. The generator theme observed in the chapter Organic Functions in three different school textbooks was evaluated and this work concludes that a renovation is necessary in the approach that is currently used. As a renovation, the psychopharmaceuticals theme may be beneficial to the educational process. A didactical sequence was elaborated using this theme as contextualization. We consider that the proposed approach can significantly contribute in the teaching-learning process and value the chemistry teaching at schools.