Research
Academic Publications, Books, Awards, etc.
Anime and Manga at School: Critical Performances of School Psychology (Paper)
(Org.) Carvalho, RMAF ; Nunes, DRN; Souza,VLT
This study aims to understand and reflect on the use of Japanese media, anime and manga, as a mediating materiality in the work of school psychologists. The research was developed in a state school located in the city of Campinas as a research-intervention proposal. The results showed the power of these media to access emotions and stimulate the imagination of adolescents, in addition to favoring the confrontation of prejudice present in the school context. An identification and elaboration of feelings and emotions was observed, triggering a process of reflection, decision-making and change in the students' way of thinking. The school psychologist, seeking to provoke reflection in an accessible and receptive school context, can use these media to understand the interests, frustrations and fears of adolescents.
II Ibero-American Symposium and IV National Symposium on Qualitative Epistemology and Theory of Subjectivity (Conference Presentation)
Carvalho, RMAF ; Souza,VLT
Rocha, MH da S.; Carvalho, RMAF ; Knight, M. of S. M; Souza,VLT
Carvalho, RMAF ; Souza,VLT
Anime, Manga, Psychology and Education: An Integrative Review (Artigo)
Carvalho, RMAF ; Souza,VLT
Anime and manga are originally Japanese media that are part of the daily media life of children and adolescents. This research sought to observe how studies in psychology and education have understood anime and manga. It is a qualitative and investigative review of the literature, including studies in the fields of psychology and/or education published between 2012 and 2022. It concludes that current research considers that the use of anime and manga can favor the elaboration and reflection on fundamental issues for the development process of children and adolescents, both in the educational and psychological fields.
Animes and Manga Mobilizing Affections and Imagination at School (Dissertation)
Carvalho, Rebecca Moura de Almeida Ferreira
The present research aimed to analyze the power of anime and manga in mobilizing the emotions and imagination of adolescents. As a theoretical and methodological framework, we adopted historical-cultural psychology, particularly Vygotsky and his conceptions of emotion, imagination, and art. The research procedure involved weekly meetings with adolescents from the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades of a state school in the interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Reflective meetings were conducted in the classroom, employing various anime and manga appreciation strategies, including debates, drawings, and texts. The sources of information for the analysis included fieldwork diary, adolescents' productions and transcriptions of the meeting recordings. The results were analyzed and organized into three main themes: (1) Emotions in Motion, where we observed the power of anime and manga in eliciting emotions and their elaboration; (2) Imagination in Motion, where imagination, coupled with emotion, drives the creative process of adolescents in perceiving new ways to understand reality and its conflicts and devising ways to overcome them; (3) Anime and Manga as Psychological Practices, in which we present the foundations of the actions carried out to contribute to future actions by school psychologists. In conclusion, working with anime and manga as mediating materials can be a potent strategy in the school context and in collective-oriented psychological practices, mobilizing emotions and imagination, fostering a more critical, inclusive approach to diversity, and transforming the living conditions of adolescents
Reflections on Violence and Differences in the School Context Using Anime (Article)
Carvalho, R.M.A.F; Souza,V.L.T
This article reports on interventions in the school context that aimed to reflect with students, in a collective and collaborative way, on themes emerging from the Covid-19 experience, especially violence and differences. Anime, Japanese animations, were used as mediating material in the school psychologist's work with 6th, 7th and 8th grade students at a state school in the interior of São Paulo. As a result, we were able to observe that the work with these materialities, concomitant with the work of school psychology, was able to help adolescents think about new ways of understanding and elaborating concepts and experiences about violence and its consequences. The work also corroborated the importance of integrated action in the school context, believing that knowledge, through integrated and multidisciplinary work, enables resignification and change, seeking to build critical thinking and the denaturalization of inequalities, violence and social injustices, thus favoring development.
Art and Psychology: Collage as a working tool for psychologists (Artigo)
Camargo, T.; Silva, RVNda; Carvalho, RMAF ; Souza,VLT
This article, which is theoretical in nature, highlights the potential of collage as a working tool for psychologists to explore in different spaces, broadening the reflection on the meanings and senses of the subjects involved in the activity. Vygotsky, in Psychology of Art, defends art as a powerful language, a way of accessing affections and expressing emotions. Taking this perspective, the article seeks to reflect on the possibility of using collage as a technique of artistic expression that promotes the subject's potential to make their emotions come alive and foster their understanding and elaboration, favoring re-significations.
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Telling through our eyes 2 (2024) (book)
(Org.) Carvalho, RMAF ; Nunes, DRN; Souza,VLT
In the second book “A contação de nos Olhos” we had the participation of twenty 8th grade students from a state school in the city of Campinas/SP. As in the first, the stories were created in full by the teenagers and inspired by the animes they watched in the classroom, accompanied by the psychologist and the teacher, resulting in thirteen stories. The stories reflect the power of imagination and the creative process of teenagers in elaborating themes and issues that they experience in their context. The anime presented at the meetings sensitized and encouraged participants to delve into the imaginative process which, with emotions at its center, favored the production of texts that reveal each person's potential to advance in their process of learning and development. Reading the stories allows an approximation of the way of feeling and thinking of young public school students, revealing their dilemmas in adolescence and the solutions they find to resolve them.
Telling through our eyes (2023) (book)
(Org.) Carvalho, RMAF ; Nunes, DRN; Souza,VLT
The book was written by nineteen 7th grade students from a state school in the city of Campinas/SP, resulting in nine short stories. The stories were fully elaborated by the adolescents and inspired by the anime (Japanese animations) they watched in the classroom, accompanied by the psychologist and the teacher. The anime presented at the meetings, dealing with different themes, sensitized and invited the adolescents to immerse themselves in the imaginative process, letting their emotions flow in the elaboration of themes such as death, mourning, violence, racism, family relationships, depression, etc. The stories reflect the power of imagination and creativity of teenagers, both to express themselves and to question and denounce what they observe in their context.
Award: MOTIV.SE (2022) PUC Campinas
Carvalho, RMAF
2nd place award at the Seventh Exhibition of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at PUC Campinas. The 7th edition of Motiv.se – Exhibition of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at PUC-Campinas, was held during the academic week and has already defined its winners. Students and alumni of the University submitted proposals for innovative ideas in two areas: Sustainability and Education . Throughout the whole week, the groups developed their projects until they reached the final panel." (...) 10/31/2022
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The power of Animes and Manga in Psychology practices with adolescents at school (Academic Poster)
Carvalho, RMAF ; Souza,VLT
The present research aims to analyze the power of anime and manga in promoting the expression of emotions and their elaboration by students of the 6th year of Elementary School. The study is anchored in the theoretical-methodological assumptions of Vygotsky's cultural-historical psychology. The author understands human development as a complex, permanent and continuous process, which takes place in the subject's interaction with culture. In order to fulfill our objective, the research is proposed within the qualitative studies, as an intervention research, seeking to unite the research with the psychological practices that aim to transform the social conditions of the participants. Classroom meetings will be organized with students participating from a State School in the city of Campinas. In the meetings we will make use of the Japanese media materiality “anime”. (...)
Awarded: Honorable Mention
“Cheer up!” : The use of anime as a promoter of the manifestation of emotions in the school context (Academic Poster)
Carvalho, RMAF ; Nunes, DRN; Souza,VLT
The present work is an excerpt from a master's research in progress, which uses anime and manga to favor the expression and elaboration of the emotions of students in the 6th year of fundamental of a state school in the metropolitan region of Campinas (RMC), São Paulo. Paul. Students were invited to watch the first episode of different animes, and then a conversation/discussion was proposed about their impressions and relationships. As a result, there was a great interest in this type of media, as well as the presence of a process of identification with the characters. This process caused emotions to emerge that, when expressed by each one, were reflected and elaborated in the collective. Experience leads us to defend anime as an instrument in the performance of the school psychologist as well as pedagogical actions at school. (...)
Awarded: Honorable Mention
"An explosion of feelings": Creating Mangas and Drawings as a way of Expressing Emotions (Academic Poster)
Carvalho, RMAF ; Nunes, DRN; Souza,VLT
The present work is part of a master's research in Psychology, in progress in the Stricto Sensu Graduate Program at PUC-Campinas, linked to the research group Processes of Constitution of the Subject in Educational Practices (PROSPED). In their research, the group members use art as a way to access the subjects, understanding it as potent in streamlining imagination and promoting development. The work aims to analyze the power of Anime and Mangas in the expression of emotions of adolescents. (...)