Glaucio Aranha

Gabinete Virtual

Research Group

The Cognition, Language, and Audiovisual in Semiotic Systems (CLASS) research group is registered with CNPq (https://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/793266) and is led by Glaucio Aranha and Alfred Sholl-Franco, both faculty members at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

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Objective

The group investigates processes and procedures of meaning-making (semiosis) and learning at the intersection of technologies and the arts in the sciences (with an emphasis on cognitive sciences: neuroscience, semiotics, linguistics, psychology, neuropsychopedagogy, etc.) and health. It focuses on transversal dialogical processes between curricular content and sensitive (artistic) and technological forms of knowledge construction. The research is guided by the understanding that mediation through sensitive experiences can serve as a pathway to enhance comprehension and (re)signification of the teaching-learning process, generating new semiotic and cognitive pathways in science and health education. The group aims to theorize, propose, test, and analyze aesthetic-technological procedures as mediation processes in teaching and learning.

The research group includes 6 researchers, 7 students (2 Ph.D. candidates, 4 master’s students, and 1 undergraduate research assistant in artistic-scientific initiation), and 1 international collaborator.

Research Areas

Educational Technology in Sciences and Health

Macroproject:
📌 Telehealth, Video-Based Simulation, and Audiovisual Mediations in Healthcare Delivery and Health Professional Education

✅ Project: The use of audiovisual resources in the virtualization of the Neuroscience Museum: Analysis of educational videos and their reception by teachers
🔹 Researcher: Vinícius de Castro, Glaucio Aranha (Master’s – 2023/present)

✅ Project: Semiosis and meaning-making in the virtual experience of the Neuroscience Museum with middle school students
🔹 Researcher: Gabriela Gomes, Glaucio Aranha (Master’s – 2024/present)

✅ Project: Video-Based Simulation (VBS) in a multilingual context within the training process in higher education in health
🔹 Researcher: Patricia Vicente Camardella, Glaucio Aranha (Master’s – 2024/present)

✅ Project: Video-Based Simulation for the Humanizing Education of Healthcare Professionals in Clinical Contexts
🔹 Researcher: Wagner Valentim de Alão, Glaucio Aranha (Master’s – 2024/present)

Translational Research in Teaching and Learning Processes

Macroproject:
📌 Philosophy of Education and Representational Technologies in Science and Health Education

✅ Project: Mental images and semiosis in biology teaching: The transit of the ‘Evolution’ sign among middle school students
🔹 Researcher: Leonardo Avelar, Glaucio Aranha (Ph.D. – 2024/present)

✅ Project: Transmedia in yoga teaching: A process of semiotic re-signification in school health education
🔹 Researcher: Nicole Bonavita, Glaucio Aranha (Master’s – 2022/2024)

✅ Project: High school students’ imaginary about the signs ‘Science’ and ‘Technology’ in their life projects
🔹 Researcher: Danielle Vasconcellos, Glaucio Aranha (Master’s – 2022/2024)

Macroproject:
📌 Technoscientific Imaginaries and Meaning-Making in Health Education and Public Communication

✅ Project: (reviewing)
🔹 Researcher: Glaucio Aranha (Ph.D. – 2024/present)

Support Materials

Bibliography

📖 Lotman, Y. (1990). Universe of the Mind. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. [PDF]

📖 Machado, I. (2014). Semiotic Spaces Modeled by the Media. National Association of Graduate Programs in Communication. XXIII Annual Meeting of Compós, Federal University of Pará, May 27–30, 2014. [PDF]