A escola pela ótica de Calvin, Mafalda e Chico Bento : um estudo das experiências cotidianas dos personagens de histórias em quadrinhos

Abstract

This study investigates the verbal and non-verbal statements in which the comics of Calvin, Mafalda and Chico Bento. For this, it was necessary to collect some comic strips about like the school is portrayed and the daily life of the characters and the uses of textual genres. The characters are of varied nationalities, social and ideological positions, thus bringing some differences and also similarities among themselves. The research evidenced that formal education does not welcome the experiences and cultural universe of their previous experiences, perhaps by the greater appreciation in the balance between the function of “socialization” and that of “humanization” fall to the former, or may still be in the schools’ option to offer students “powerful knowledge.”