Graphic novels and comics in the classroom : essays on the educational power of sequential art
Carrye Kay Syma (Editor), Robert G. Weiner (Editor)
"Sequential art combines the visual and the narrative in a way that readers have to interpret the images with the writing. Comics make a good fit with education because students are using a format that provides active engagement"-- Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, 2013
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2013
Graphic novels
xii, 286 pages ; 26 cm
9780786459131, 0786459131
817595720
pt. I. Significance of graphic novels and comics: then and now. Using comics to teach the language arts in the 1940s and 1950s / Carol L. Tilley
Stigmatization, multimodality and metaphor: comics in the adult English as a second language classroom / Alice Leber-Cook and Roy T. Cook
The attitudes of some students on the use of comics in higher education / Christina L. Blanch and Thalia M. Mulvihill
pt. II. Teaching graphic novels and comics in the classroom. "I can get college credit for reading Batman? That's a joke, right?" Confessions of a fanboy professor teaching comic books / David Whitt
"What the __?" Pre-service teachers meet and grapple over graphic novels in the classroom / James Bucky Carter
Teaching intertexuality and parody through the graphic "supertext": Martin Rowson's The Waste Land (1990) / Kevin M. Flanagan
pt. III. Graphic novels and comics, beyond the text. "Remember, remember the fifth of November": using graphic novels to teach dystopian literature / Daniel Ian Rubin
Exploring the art in sequential art: an art historical approach to teaching comics / Abram Fox
On teaching comics and graphic novels in the medieval and renaissance classroom / Christina C. Angel
Leagues, evildoers and tales of survival: graphic novels and the world history classroom / Maryanne A. Rhett
"Indisciplinary" teaching: comics studies and research writing pedagogy / Phillip Troutman
pt. IV. Specific graphic novels and comics and their application in educational settings. Teaching "The auto-graphic novel": autobiographical comics and the ethics of readership / Rebecca Scherr
Teaching theory through Y: The Last Man / Timothy D. Arner
Approaching literacy features through the graphic novel Logicomix / Marianna Missiou and Yiannis Koukoulas
Manga, the atomic bomb and the challenges of teaching historical atrocity: Keiji Nakazawa's Barefoot Gen / Jeremy R. Ricketts
Information comics: risks and pitfalls / Felix Keller and Dorothea Oechslin
Graphic N-extbooks: a journey beyond traditional textbooks / Jeremy Short, David Ketchen and Jeff Shelstad
pt. V. Cultural implications of graphic novels and comics. Beyond borders: teaching global awareness through the graphic novel / Lan Dong
The benefits of writing comics / Diana Maliszewski
Multicultural education through graphic novels / Rebecca M. Marrall
"So, Joss, why do you always write these strong women characters?" Using Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men to teach feminism / Erin Hollis
Sequential art for qualitative research / Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower