The use comics as a didactic resource in teaching Geography: a possibility to work with the Place category

Abstract

The present article made use of comics as a didactic resource aiming at a theoretical approximation of the study of the geographic category Place with the students' reality. To make this connection, it initially conducted a literature review. Participant research consolidated the methodological approach of intervention in an educational context. The Paulo Freire's directions were of utmost importance for the realization of this work, regarding the use of mechanisms that facilitate the teaching-learning process. For the methodological design, in a first step, a workshop was held in hybrid format with the students on the conception of Place for Geography such as the comic strips (comics) and an application that could materialize their making. After this moment, the students built the resource by later giving feedback on the use of comics, indicating that they are mechanisms that help in the teaching-learning process. However, for the adoption of any resource or tool, it is necessary to know the reality of the social actors to which one wishes to apply, so that, in this way, we can trace the best paths in the search for a more participative, democratic, dynamic, and close to their experience’s education.