Graphic novels and comics in the classroom : essays on the educational power of sequential art / edited by Carrye Kay Syma and Robert G. Weiner ; foreword by Robert V. Smith ; afterword by Mel Gibson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Syma, Carrye Kay, editor.

Weiner, Robert G., 1966- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc., in education.

Graphic novels in education.

Physical Description:

xii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Foreword / Robert V. Smith

Introduction / Robert G. Weiner and Carrye Kay Syma

Part 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

Part 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

Part 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

Part 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

Part 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

Afterword / Mel Gibson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780786459131

0786459131

OCLC:

817595720