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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Graphic novels"”.
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Pedagogy of Graphic Novels
<p>Graphic texts, or graphic novels, have spent many years on shelves with comic books about superheroes and adventurers. They officially gained notoriety in 1992 with Art Spiegelman’s Maus, and at this time, critics and scholars began to take notice. However, graphic novels have not been fully …
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Graphic Novels as Tools for a Modern English Classroom
… One way to achieve this goal is to use graphic novels in the classroom. This project reviews available literature to determine what sort of success graphic novels have seen in the classroom, why graphic novels are not used more frequently in the classroom, and how graphic novels might be …
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Understanding the Use of Graphic Novels to Support the Writing Skills of a Struggling Writer
… years creating text-only material as well as graphic novels (on paper, on the computer, and online). The purpose of this research was to develop and assess the effectiveness and practicability of a visual treatment in order to help this high-achieving student with excellent comprehension and …
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Thinking inside the boxes: the importance of comics and graphic novels in visual arts education
For most of the 20th century, comics and graphic novels have not been considered worthy of inclusion in curricula by Educators. Comics have been blamed for juvenile delinquency and poor literacy skill acquisition (Wertham, 1954; McCloud, 1993, 2000). Yet recently educators have taken comics into …
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Seriously, what are they reading? An analysis of Korean children's reading behavior regarding Educational Graphic Novels
… diverse views on the popularity of Educational Graphic Novels (EGNs) in Korea and children’s use of this medium. In order to elicit voices of children who are the main readers of EGNs, in-depth focus group interviews were conducted with fourteen Korean children ages seven to eleven. Interviews …
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Drawing the Line: Visible and Invisible Disability, Identity, and Intersectionality in Award-Winning Graphic Novels for Teens
… in teen literature, specifically the Great Graphic Novels for Teens list from the American Library Association. The tenets of critical disability theory guided a critical analysis of both text and imagery to explore how visible and invisible disabilities are portrayed in award-winning …
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European Biographical Graphic Novels about Canonical Painters: An Analysis of Form and Function in the Context of Art Museums
… boom. As part of a third, overlapping boom, graphic novels about canonical painters have become important tools in art museums' exhibitions, outreach, and education programmes, informing their public relations and marketing campaigns, promoting their collections, and (supposedly) attracting …
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Exploring the pedagogical potential of graphic novels in developing Grade 7 students’ multiliteracy skills in St. Vincent and the Grenadines
This thesis explored the pedagogical potential of graphic novel texts through a case study of their use to develop 98 Grade 7 students’ multiliteracy skills in three classrooms in one school in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Pedagogical practices in these classrooms had not previously included …
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Detached from Our Bodies: Representing women's mental health and well-being with graphic memoirs
… and incorporation of creative works in geographical research (de Leeuw & Hawkins, 2017). With their ever-growing popularity in the humanities, graphic novels are one example of a creative work gaining epistemological momentum in geography. Graphic novels have proven attractive to …
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A Bloody Yesteryear and a Brighter Tomorrow: Late Cold War Anti-Heroes in the 1980s Graphic Novels of Alan Moore and Frank Miller
… a time of great change in the medium of graphic literature. Among the writers who changed superhero comic books through such strategies as the adoption of the anti-hero concept were Alan Moore and Frank Miller. In <em>Watchmen</em> and <em>V for Vendetta</em>, Alan Moore presents his …
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Reading the Word and the World through Graphic Novels: A Graphic Portrayal of Young Adult Literacy Development in a Ninth Grade English Literature Classroom
… related to adolescent literacy practices through graphic novels. A case study utilizing the graphic novels grounded in the theoretical approach of critical literacy demonstrated increases in motivation toward reading from a more critical social lens. Participants in this case study were chosen …
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The educational visual "language" in graphic novel adaptations of Shakespeare
… is a hierarchal problem in how Shakespearean graphic novels are taught withinsecondary level education. As will be shown in my review of the critical work surrounding Shakespearean graphic novel adaptations, graphic texts have long helped instructors, teachers, and other fellow educators, …
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Teaching English in Saudi Arabia Through the Use of Multimedia
… modern technology and movies, songs and graphic novels, etc, to enhance students’ communicative competence and motivate critical thinking. In fact, The project will be constructed to implement the use of technology in the Saudi Arabian traditional classrooms. It will serve as a model for …
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Cotidiano, escola e graphic novel: o papel da mídia no fortalecimento da educação das relações étnico-raciais
Investigar sobre a utilização das graphic novels (romances gráficos) como uma mídia capaz de oferecer recursos para o fortalecimento da Educação das Relações Étnico-Raciais no cotidiano escolar é o objetivo geral desta tese. No desenvolvimento da pesquisa é apresentada uma análise sobre o papel da …
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The Liminal Space of Dreams: Narration of Dreams in Graphic novel and Comics
… essay explores the dream as a narrative in graphic novels and comics, examining its character as a subconscious experience depicted by means of visual storytelling. Focusing on psychological, symbolic, and aesthetic functions of dream narrative, I demonstrate that dream narration offers an …
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Portraying Anxiety Disorders in Picturebooks: An Exploration into Using Picturebooks as an Interface Between Therapists and Young Adults (age 18–34)
… the embodiment of illness in comics and graphic novels (Miers, 2017; El Refaie, 2019). For instance, graphic novels and comics about depression have been analysed to explore the effectiveness of visualising depression experiences with visual metaphor theories. Considering the similarities …
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Reading Process Comparison between Graphic Novel and Traditional Novels
… use different reading process when reading a graphic novel and traditional novel. The guiding question for the study was how does the process differ when reading a graphic novel when compared to a traditional novel? This research is a qualitative study of one student’s processing while reading …
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Subversive Intimacies: Resisting Settler Colonialism's Shallow Attachments
… I draw on a range of creative responses—graphic novels, music, poetry, fiction, activism—as a means of assessing how Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples creatively respond to settler colonialism’s shallow attachments. The multifocal, multilocal exploration—different theoretical …
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