Get a taste of Mafalda
by Langwitches ~ April 20th, 2009. Filed under: Education, World Languages.
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I fell in love with Mafalda when I was 15 and just started learning Spanish.
On Wikipedia you can read:
Mafalda is a comic strip written and drawn by the Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado (pen name Quino). The strip features a girl named Mafalda (5 years old at the time of the comic’s creation) who is deeply concerned about humanity and world peace and rebels against the world as it is.
Although written in the 1960’s, Mafalda was and is timeless. I can just imagine her commentary she would make today about the state of affairs in schools and her opinion on integrating technology . 
Mafalda “rebels against the world as it is”. Why was I surprised then to find a tweaked Mafalda slide in a slideshare presentation ?
“Before…it was school, books and a good acordeon”
“Today with ICT, project method and more”
“With the learning, with the teaching, with the strategies, the resources, cooperative groups, meaningful knowledge…
NOTHING is like it used to be in Kindergarten!!!”
Image by Nelson Piedra (nopiedra)
“To the only president capable of demonstrating to us that everything we learn in school could be true!!”
This was dedicated by Quino to Argentina’s ex-president, Raul Alfonsin, who died a few weeks ago (March 2009)
Check out some other cartoon strips that have been translated into English on Google Images to get a taste of Mafalda.
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