2024/12/02 by Cláudia Faria, Bianor Valente, Joana Torres · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Health Professions · Psychology · #Comics and Graphic Narratives #Digital Storytelling and Education #Educational Games and Gamification
paper · pdf · doi:10.22323/2.23080802
openalex publication_date 2024/12/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
The aim of this pilot study was to understand how the use of science comics, centred on complex scientific knowledge, can promote students' engagement with science, in order to discuss its potentialities as a tool to communicate science for the general public. The qualitative study involved 175 students and 7 teachers. The results revealed that the use of comics significantly increases students' motivation and commitment to the learning tasks. All participants highlighted that the narrative nature of comics, with a mixture of text and images, offering a story to follow, contributed to their engagement with the scientific topic, regardless of their complexity.