HQ no livro didático de Geografia: entre a linguagem e a aprendizagem.

Abstract

The traditional teaching method, in which the exposition of themes, exercise solving and content memorization, have, historically, been prioritized as the main teaching technique in Geography. Such practice have provided tiresome and uninteresting classes for the students. Therefore, new strategies must be considered so that the spatial knowledge appropriation occur in a productive and satisfactory way. Thus, this research’s main goal is to analyze strips from comic books that are found in the most used textbooks in Geography teaching, in Campina Grande’s public middle schools, and if they contribute to deepen the geographic knowledge. And that’s because it is the main pedagogical instrument used by teachers in this school subject. The methodological procedure used in the bibliographical research, came from authors such as Cavalcanti, Pontuschka, Vygotsky, Tonini, Lira, amongst others. As well as an analysis of the main textbooks used in public schools of the city previously mentioned. Amongst the the results we could point out that some of the comic strips, in some books, occur completely decontextualized from each of the textbook’s chapters’s themes, others are shown only the complementary texts and, in a few textbooks, they do relate to the chapter’s content.