Banca de DEFESA: RAMON DOS SANTOS DE SOUZA

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STUDENT : RAMON DOS SANTOS DE SOUZA
DATE: 24/02/2026
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: Conferência WEB RNP | https://conferenciaweb.rnp.br/webconf/aristoteles-de-paula-berino
TITLE:

Frame by frame: the school-world in the imaginary of Calvin and Hobbes comic strips

KEY WORDS:

Comics; school; Calvin and Hobbes; Paulo Freire; dialogues.

PAGES: 149
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUBÁREA: Currículo
SPECIALTY: Currículos Específicos para Níveis e Tipos de Educação
SUMMARY:

This research aims to establish a critical and creative dialogue between the fields of education and art and culture. Starting from this relationship, sometimes intertwined aesthetically, sometimes ethically, the work seeks to develop an equally critical and creative reflection on the representations of school and its educational contexts in comic strips, focusing on the Calvin and Hobbes comic strips by Bill Watterson. Based on these assumptions – the legitimacy of comic book art and the relevance of Calvin and Hobbes strips to the discussions developed in this research – the intersections evoked and the eventual interdisciplinary conjugations resulting from the dialogues promoted here, bringing education and art, school and comics closer together, are constructed, among other authors, concepts and theoretical perspectives, from the point of view of Paulo Freire's thought (2018, 2021) and the aesthetic – and, why not, also ethical – moments that reveal new worlds, experiences and existences and that are unveiled in language, in the arts, in images, in imagination and, above all, in education. Based on this convergence-conjunction between comics and education, and the provocations raised by Calvin and Hobbes strips, this study focuses on reflecting on the relationships – and also the tensions – experienced within the school environment, amidst the diversity of daily lives lived by students, educators, parents, and the school community in general, paying attention to how such encounters, dialogues, disputes, and coexistence are established. Given the above, considering the interrelations and potential clashes arising from the interactions between art/education, comics/school, childhood/adulthood, imagination in its critical and creative potential/reality in the concreteness of conformity and hopeless adaptation, the relevance of this research is justified, among other reasons, by the prominence of the arts and images, particularly comics, as a means of accessing a novel reality, in its aesthetic representation and in the constitution of the human being in its subjectivity, language, imagination, curiosity, and thought.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1243695 - ARISTOTELES DE PAULA BERINO
Interna - 1794153 - FABRICIA VELLASQUEZ PAIVA
Externo à Instituição - Fabio Sampaio de Almeida - CEFET/RJ