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Guilherme A. C. Profeta, University of Sorocaba, BrazilBeatriz O. Delboni, University of Sorocaba, Brazil
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Given the demand for diverse didactic resources that promote engagement, identification, and effective cultural mediation, products of pop culture, such as Japanese comics (or manga), have drawn increasing interest from educators. This bibliometric study investigates how Brazilian academic research has addressed manga as an object of study over the past ten years, especially in the field of Education. Using the descriptor “mangá,” we surveyed the Thesis and Dissertation Catalog of the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (Capes), identifying 73 Master’s theses and doctoral dissertations produced in Brazil between 2014 and 2024. Results show a rise in scholarly interest beginning in 2020, mainly in Brazil’s Southeast region. We developed a categorization matrix to classify the studies by focus: Reception and reinterpretation of manga (11%); Visual/aesthetic aspects (9.6%); Representation studies (31.5%); Intermedia adaptation and/or comparative literature (15.1%); Translation (4.1%); Informal education (2.7%); and Formal education (26%), the primary category of interest in this research. Out of the 19 studies focused on formal education, the majority (13) explored the use of specific manga titles as didactic tools for teaching content or form. Only four works examined manga as a collaborative creative process, proposing the production of manga during classroom activities. Most of these 19 studies (14) addressed Elementary or Secondary education, with none focusing on Higher Education. This absence points to a gap in the literature and highlights an opportunity for original research on manga creation as a pedagogical practice within the context of Higher Education.
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Conference: ACE2025Stream: Higher education
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Profeta G., & Delboni B. (2026) Pop Culture in Education: A Bibliometric Study of Trends, Uses, and Gaps of Brazilian Research on Manga (2014–2024) ISSN: 2186-5892 – The Asian Conference on Education 2025: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 1345-1366) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-5892.2026.104
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-5892.2026.104
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