Cartooning in Educational Contexts: A Promising Way to Promote Cross-Curricular Work with Children and Adolescents

ANA PEDRAZZINI; CONSTANZA ZINGRAF; PAOLA D´ADAMO; LUCIA BUGALLO; LOZADA, MARIANA

Teaching with Comics

Springer

Año: 2022; p. 111 - 130

In this chapter, we argue in favor of the value of cartooning in educational contexts as a cross-curricular tool to foster students’agency, multimodal communication, and civic engagement. We designed and conducted two cartoon workshops in primaryschools in Argentina. Thirty-three students aged 10–13 years old were asked to create a multimodal cartoon about socialinequalities and social empathy. Most of the students were able to accomplish the task by deploying a repertoire of multimodalnarrative and rhetorical resources. They created imaginary and experiential situations in order to address—from their ownviewpoint—economic, gender, and ethnic inequalities, often denouncing a lack of empathic concern. This evidenced acommitted, or a committed-playful motivation. We provide insights into the scope of this creative and multimodal activity