Nuevas armas de una misma guerra. O de cómo las historietas enseñan Historia

Abstract

In recent years, the researchers dedicated to the study of the history teaching drew attention to the influence of new «cultural artifacts» in the forging of the historical culture of the young people. Video Games, TV series, documentaries, films and websites should begin to be taken into account when assessing the major emitters of historical content. In this case, we study one of these «artifacts»: historical comics and cartoons. Our aim is to know its historical course and, from that point on, to analyze the place they currently have in the curriculums, taking into account its limits and possibilities. Through a journey across the main historical cartoon that have had Argentina in the twentieth and early twenty–first century, we analyze its content and political–pedagogical proposal that emerges from the authors as well as from those organizations designed to disseminate then in the school.The conclusion of this paper is that, despite the novelty that involves teaching history through alternatives tools to the traditional manuals, both content and spread values do not differ from those who spread the old textbooks. This means that comics function as tools in the service of scholar history teaching whose main function is to promote civic nationalist consciousness.

Keywords

• teaching of history
• cultural artifacts
• comics