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Chapter 17 - “Educationally Occupied”

Learning with Comics

from Part III - Uses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2023

By
Susan Kirtley
Edited by
Maaheen Ahmed
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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comicscomic arteducationpedagogyteachinglearning
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The Cambridge Companion to Comics , pp. 346 - 363
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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