Identificação do bullying nas histórias em quadrinhos em língua inglesa: conscientização no meio escolar

Abstract

The school bullying is a social factor that is evident in many countries and cultures, making victims students with forms that are seemingly harmless as simple pranks, but that can create unpleasant consequences for those involved. Bullying is portrayed as brutal and repetitive aggression: physical, verbal, social, and lately in the face of information technology: cyber bullying. This work was concerned with developing techniques and teaching methods that allow smooth and minimize these actions in school spaces, involving four stages: The first stage refers to the explanation of the concept and thermology bullying, character of the phenomenon, physical and social consequences through slides showing photographs, cartoons, newspaper headlines and interviews with participants. In the second moment, reading a chapter of comics in english language of the Gang’s Monica for identification of bullying in their protagonists. The third stage analyzed separately repetitive aggression in clippings of comic books in order to understand the aspects and consequences of assaults on the characters. And finally, the study of cases in other comics to identify the type of bullying and develop strategies to reduce and solve problems generated by the victims in violent acts such as awareness, termination and psychological treatments.