Beyond the Tool: Epistemological Foundations of Comics for Their Pedagogical Legitimacy. A scoping review

This project presents the protocol and materials related to a scoping review aimed at mapping and critically analyzing the international scientific literature on the conceptualization of comics in the pedagogical field. The main objective is to fill the persistent theoretical fragility of the field, laying the foundations for the definition of a coherent epistemological status of comics as a pedagogical artifact and formalizing the concept of comics literacy.

The methodological framework is rigorously based on the international frameworks of Levac et al. (2010) and Peters et al. (JBI, 2020), following the extension of the PRISMA-ScR guidelines (Tricco et al., 2018) to ensure maximum transparency and replicability. The review investigates multidisciplinary databases (including PubMed, Scopus, ERIC, JStore) by analyzing contributions in Italian, English, French, and Spanish.

Through this mapping, the research aims to overcome the vision of comics as a mere compensatory tool, promoting their legitimacy as an autonomous and complex object of study in the contemporary pedagogical landscape.