It is not just textbooks or lectures that bring knowledge to pre-university entrance exams, there is a range of literature and information that prepare the student for the exam, from qualitative way.
Comics also provide good educational support, as they speak the same language as young people and can facilitate understanding of various topics, such as wars, historical facts, imperial period, among others, leading students to a critical and satirical way of perceiving how such facts happened.
Reading comics does not mean that the student is too childish or alienated from the world and the reality that surrounds him, but a way of joining knowledge, culture and entertainment.
Some comics bring historical and interesting approaches, creating conditions to get involved with the deliberate themes for high school, cited below as an option for students to become aware of the matters.
Dom João Carioca (Lilia Moritz S. and Spacca) – is a comic that takes a satirical approach to the coming of the Portuguese court, in 1807, to Brazil, to escape the Napoleonic war.
Gen – Barefoot (Keiji Nakazawa) – an autobiographical text that tells the story of a six-year-old boy who lived in Hiroshima, Japan, suffering the aftermath of the end of World War II.
Maus (Art Spielgerman) – With the title of Pulitzer Prize winner, the author tells, through this fable, the life story of his father, a Jew who survived the concentration camps, characterizing people as animals: rat Jews (bad in German); Germans - cats and Americans - dogs.
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A Story from Sarajevo (Joe Sacco) – this journalist takes a look at the story of Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia, and the destruction of a civil war that hit the Bosnian Serb population and Croatian.
Toda Mafalda (Quino) – these comics portray, in satire, the life of a seven-year-old girl, who lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the seventies, where political and social conflicts were in evidence. She is a very intelligent character, who although a child, has knowledge of literature, politics and philosophy.
In addition to these, some newspapers with national circulation carry serious comics, which address social problems, in a qualitative way, which is also fundamental for the training of the pre-university student, in order to provide a critical awareness of the reality that about. Henfil (Henrique de Sousa Filho) was one of the great names in Brazilian cartoonist and comic book history. Today we have Cacco Galhardo, from Folha de São Paulo, who publishes the strip “Os Pescoçudos” once a week, and has already had some of his characters turned into cartoons.
By Jussara de Barros
Graduated in Pedagogy
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BARROS, Jussara de. "Comic Stories and Entrance Exams"; Brazil School. Available in: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/educacao/historias-quadrinhos-vestibular.htm. Accessed on June 27, 2021.
