title: [Comics for citizenship].
abstract: A new method for working with scientific, healthcare, historic, sociological, linguistic and other concepts through comic books is presented for youth from public high schools in Rio de Janeiro. The method is based on the pedagogy inspired by Bachelard, according to which scientific knowledge and artistic production are integrated by the stimulus to creativity. It shows how it is capable of contributing to the recuperation of students' self-esteem and increasing motivation to study and how through a creative process and emphasis on a critical spirit, youths construct their citizenship, based on re-readings and translations of a new world built of sciences, dreams and images, which are made concrete in comics, some of which illustrate the text.
authors.affiliation: Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. francisco.caruso@gmail.com
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Caruso
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Silveira
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D002359:Cartoons as Topic / Q000523:psychology*; D003405:Creativity; D006801:Humans; D012586:Science / Q000193:education*; D012649:Self Concept; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D013664:Teaching Materials; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic