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Summary:

"Imagine a classroom where students put away their smart phones and enthusiastically participate in learning activities that unleash creativity and refine critical thinking. This collection brings together 17 new essays on using comics and graphic novels to provide both a learning framework and hands-on strategies that transform students' learning experiences through literary forms they respond to"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Teaching the mythic with pop culture and graphic novels / Christina Angel
• Your bain on comics : the graphic novel in the college classroom / Carly L. Cate and Marck L. Beggs
• Comics and the city : writing and the new American student / Stafford Gregoire
• Viewing comics as education through art / Kerry Freedman
• Death in ancient philosophy and the Sandman series : a case study in inquiry-based learning / Gerol Petruzella
• Reading right to left : manga in the classroom, at fan conventions, and online / Derek McGrath
• Saving the world one class at a time : teaching superhero comics / David Seelow
• Building institutions : comics studies at University of Wisconsin, Madison, a North American case study / Leah Misemer
• Comics studies at the University of Dundee : a transatlantic case study / Chris Murray
• Comics in the community : opportunities for creativity and collaboration in community-based settings / Michael Bitz
• Reading and writing comics and graphic novels : collaborative best practices between school librarians and teachers / Karen W. Gavigan
• Using comics storytelling to engage innovation and transform education : the "writing with pictures" case / Lida Tsene
• "Beyond hair bows and cleavage : helping women draw their iconic selves" / Jessica Baldanzi
• Teaching comics from constraints : Oubapo and other experiments in form, style, and technique / Chris Reyns-Chikuma
• Comiccrafting : approaches for working with technology and creating comics in the classroom / Keith McCleary
• Technology and comics art : an interview with Dave Gibbons / Phillip Vaughan
• Choose the format of your destructor : design choices for comic creators in print & digital media / Daniel Merlin Goodbrey
• Conclusion : learning in and around education / David Seelow.

Contributors:

Seelow, David , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Lessons drawn (Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2019 — ISBN 9781476671581; LCCN 2019009510; OCLC Number 1047650915)

Subjects:

Comic books, strips, etc., in education

Graphic novels in education

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource, title from digital title page (Ebook Central, viewed on June 3, 2020).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 248 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

LB1044.9.C59 L47 2019eb

ISBNs:

9781476634913 (electronic bk.)
1476634912 (electronic bk.)
9781476671581 [Invalid]
1476671583 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1100601405