“Educationally Occupied”

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Chapter 17 - “Educationally Occupied”

Learning with Comics

from Part III - Uses

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 August 2023

Susan Kirtley

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Maaheen Ahmed

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Maaheen Ahmed: Affiliation:
Universiteit Gent, Belgium

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Summary

This chapter explores scholarship on comics in education, examining the following themes: teaching with comics, teaching about comics, and teaching through creating and producing comics as a way of processing and communicating information. The chapter discusses each of these interrelated approaches in turn, examining the ways in which comics can be used in various learning contexts, demonstrating how educators, academics, and creators can work together to understand how comics might be used to encourage visual literacy and multimodal thinking for students.

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comics comic art education pedagogy teaching learning

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Information: The Cambridge Companion to Comics , pp. 346 - 363

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009255653.022 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2023

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