Desenho de mangá e paper toys: a cultura otaku e a linguagem audiovisual articulando matemática e arte na educação escolar.

Abstract

This study emerges from the desire of linking the audiovisual culture in Mathematics classes in formal school education by using Manga drawings and images. It is considered that media and technology share signifying practices and produce youth social identities (eg. the otaku culture youngsters), which cultural artifacts, such as Mangas, may have pedagogical potential to be used in school education. Therefore, this study aims to recognize the potentiality of linking the audiovisual culture, with special focus to Mangas in the teaching of Mathematics, to two 6th grade classes of Elementary School. The theoretical and methodological frame of reference is based in the field of Cultural Studies, considering the Circuit of Culture (HALL, 1997, 2014, 2016) and the concepts of representation, identity, regulation, production and consumption. The cultural analysis consisted in the methodological analysis of the material produced by the students as well as the school register book, considering the concepts of representation and regulation as theoretical-methodological tools to organize the data for the research and provide the link between Art, Mathematics, youth and audiovisual culture. In regard to the stages of the research conduction, we started with a bibliographical review in theses and dissertations in order to know what other researchers have found previously and to contribute with the propositions and analysis of the pedagogical interventions in the school. The pedagogical interventions in the school were consisted by an exploratory study in Math classes with activities involving the technologies and media to get information to realize two workshops: the first one about folding paper toys with Anime and Manga characters and the other one about drawing human figures in manga style. The result of this study showed the potential of audiovisual culture to the construction of other significances about Mathematics involving not only the literacy and oral cultures which are already legitimated in the school environment but other ways of reading and writing in the math teaching process, producing geometrical knowledge from the activities involving images. The use of human figure drawings in Manga style and paper toys folding not only promoted the valorization of the youth culture and the audiovisual language but also opened space to the comprehension of how important these contemporaneous practices are for youth, who interpellated by mediatic culture of images, interact with the characters and consume the otaku culture in hybrid productions of drawings and videos.