Who to use cartoons as social sciences teaching and learning.

2. USING CARTOONS AS A LEARNING STRATEGY Teresa Plana Vidal

3. Humour is just another defense against the universe. Mel Brooks Humour is also a way of saying something serious. T. S. Eliot Um… I think I ’ ll go home now because the kids will be bathed and ready for bed. I think I ’ ll stay until 10, because if I go home earlier I ’ ll have to take the dog for a walk

16. ¿ The public are members of a ... society ? ¿ Why does the man hate this situation? ¿ What kind of assembly is this ?

17. B) The students must find the logical inconsistency. 40 years of cursing the income tax I pay and I end up with no pension!

18. C) They discover new concepts and meanings. I don ’ t believe in ” No ” or in abstaining, so the only option is “ well, I suppose so ” 1 ) What does the cartoon refer to? 2) What is the issue? 3) What other possibilities are there?

19. Conclusions 1. These jokes are not funny. Newspaper cartoons often reflect social realities that we don ’ t like.

20. Conclusions 2. Many of these jokes are difficult to understand, they presuppose certain knowledge or attitudes .

21. Conclusions 3. With explanations given in class and applying what they have learnt to the cartoon, students are able to recover specific references and apply them in different contexts. They may even relate them to and interprete quite complex ideas.

22. Thanks! Teresa Plana Vidal