A Geografia em quadrinhos digitais: análise de uma prática educativa

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the impacts of the creation of digital comics on the understanding of socio-spatial issues, contemplated by the Geography curriculum of the State Department of Education of São Paulo (SEE / SP). To accomplish the study, a qualitative research was carried out with a group of 44 students from the 9th Year of Elementary School, from a public school in the interior of the state of São Paulo. It was adopted a theoretical reference of works from Fantin (2016, 2012), Vergueiro (2014, 2009), Nogueira (2012), Bardin (2011), Prata-Linhares (2011), Moran (2007), Carvalho (2006), Csikszentmihaly (1999), among others, related to education and presenting correspondence with journalism and psychology. The data collection was based on the application of a semi structured survey, the planning and execution of expository-dialogued classes, the creation of content in the online universe and the holding of a press conference. In the occasions reserved to authorship, organized in pairs, the participants were challenged to elaborate comics related to the process of globalization. The analysis of the data demonstrated that in addition to promoting the appropriation of curricular content, youth protagonism and the use of digital technologies in the school environment, the proposed activity was widely accepted by students. These observations demonstrate that, in the context of the present study, the creation of digital comics proved to be a more interactive and meaningful pedagogical practice, pointing, pointing to the potential of educational actions in which the issue of authorship mediated by digital cultural artifacts is present.