O uso de histórias em quadrinhos nacionais para o ensino dos conceitos geográficos.

Abstract

Teaching has been undergoing several transformations in recent years, mainly due to market demands and the struggle of education professionals to build a quality public education, using several practices for this purpose. The goal of the work presented in here is to verify if the use of comics from Brazilian literature can favor the conceptual construction of geography, based on pedagogical practices that value the student as an active subject of learning, based on thinkers such as Lev Vygotsky and Lana de Souza Cavalcanti. As a methodological procedure we used content analysis, where we made a previous selection of the literary works "O Cortiço", "Os Sertões", "O Guarani" and "Vidas Secas". The reading and recognition of the main concepts of Geography present in the comics, making the referred inferences and interpretation of the collected data. As a result, the use of comics can contribute as a facilitating tool in the construction of knowledge. However, the use of this type of material alone does not guarantee the student's learning process. Comics are a literary format that is more attractive due to its simplified and appealing language, and it is up to the teacher to make use of this resource by using literary works that bring the student closer to the Geography debate and to issues that are close to their daily lives.