scholarly journals What do teachers think about the educational role of comic books?: A qualitative analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-404
Author(s):  
Paul A. Aleixo ◽  
Daniel Matkin ◽  
Laura Kilby
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Comic Books ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Educational Role ◽  
Missed Opportunity

An exploratory, qualitative, study into the views of teachers on the use of comic books in education was carried out. Three secondary school teachers with varying experiences of comic books were interviewed using an open-ended format. Results of a thematic analysis indicated three clear areas of thinking around comic books: firstly, comic books are considered to be a medium of children’s entertainment, and not associated with educational practice; secondly, when the medium is employed in education, it should primarily be used with students that require extra support and thirdly, comic books represent a ‘missed opportunity in education’ and have not achieved their full potential due to a lack of comic book resources for use in the classroom. All three concepts are discussed in light of research evidence supporting the use of comics in educational contexts and concerns are highlighted that suggest these themes might represent a barrier to the future use of comics in these areas. Further qualitative and quantitative research to expand these initial findings is also suggested.

Comics Are in Right Now

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Drew Morton
Keyword(s):  
Comic Books ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Film Noir ◽  
High Contrast ◽  
Horizontal Integration ◽  
Digital Cinema ◽  
Compositional Technique ◽  
Ontological Shift

This book examines the intricacies of the American film's stylistic remediation of comics. Stylistic remediation refers to the stylistic practice by films (both adaptations of comics and original properties), in which they have increasingly relied on the formal characteristics of comic books (such as panels, speed lines, the dissection of motion, flat compositions). For their part, comics have drawn upon formal devices derived from film (such as the film noir compositional technique of high-contrast lighting and Photoshop assisted motion blurring to produce a more cinematic look). The book explores how stylistic remediation complicates the idea of media specificity, the role of horizontal integration and conglomeration in the process of stylistic remediation, the industrial motivation behind remediation in films and comics, and whether the remediation of comic book stylistics into films is fundamentally a by-product of technologies and an indication of a larger ontological shift from cinema to digital cinema.

scholarly journals A família como um locus educacional: perspectivas para um trabalho psicoeducacional

2019 ◽  
Vol 81 (197) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heloisa Szymanski
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Paulo Freire ◽  
Family Education ◽  
Affective Development ◽  
Educational Role ◽  
The Family ◽  
De Se ◽  
Historical Phenomenon

Apresenta a Educação para Família como um campo de investigação e prática profissional em Educação e Psicologia. Critica a visão naturalizada de família, enfatizando sua condição de fenômeno social e histórico, além de desempenhar uma função socializadora e educacional. Aponta para a necessidade de se desenvolverem pesquisas e de se oferecerem programas de atenção nessa área, no sentido de subsidiar a ação educacional dos pais. Indica a proposta de Paulo Freire aplicada à Educação para Família como referencial teórico para pesquisas na área, na suposição de que aquela oferece condições para a implementação de uma prática favorável ao desenvolvimento social e afetivo no ambiente familiar. Nas considerações finais, indicam alguns pressupostos que podem orientar o trabalho de pesquisa e intervenção. Palavras-chave: família e educação; diálogo em família; função educativa da família. Abstract This article presents Family Education as a field of research and professional practice in Education and Psychology. It criticises the naturalistic perspective that bears the supposition that the educational role of the family can be naturally performed by parents and women, in particular. That institution is considered here as a social and historical phenomenon, with a socialising and educational goal. The approach of Paulo Freire applied to Family Education is proposed as a theoretical framework to develop research, and as a privileged way to implement an educational practice that favours social and affective development. The final considerations point to some presuppositions, based on Freire's ideas that can orientate research and intervention projects. Keywords: family and education; dialogue in family; ducational family practices.

scholarly journals Is the intrinsic motivation of career choice important for the later professional development of teachers?

Psihologija ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-464
Author(s):  
Milica Marusic
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Extrinsic Motivation ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Rank Correlation ◽  
Hierarchical Cluster ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
School Teachers

The nature of teachers? professional choice motivation has been proved important for the later professional development. The goal of the present research was to determine the role of the intrinsic motivation in the participants? decision to become teachers, as well as to establish the importance of intrinsic motivation for their later professional development. We have conducted a quantitative research, within a sample consisted of 118 secondary school teachers, by application of survey method (instrument? questionnaire in the form of Likert-type scale). Statistical analysis has consisted of: hierarchical cluster analysis, descriptive statistics, factor analysis and rank correlation. It was established that the intrinsic motivation takes precedence over the extrinsic motivation in the process of professional choice determination. We have also confirmed the hypothesis claiming that the level of intrinsic motivation correlates with the indicators of professional behavior. Besides, the level of intrinsic motivation is better predictor of the enthusiasm and growth then of the career frustration (Fessler, 1995). Our results are in favor of the teacher education system, where the candidates apply and prepare for the teacher profession from the beginning of the initial education.

scholarly journals Image of Russia in French-Language Comics

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 167-180
Author(s):  
M. Debrenne
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Comic Books ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
French Language ◽  
Red Color ◽  
Insufficient Knowledge ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Pointed Star

This article initiates research on the representation of Russia in French comic books. From 1849 to the present about 400 volumes have been published. In this paper, the notion “comics about Russia” include: a) a book of comics in which the action takes place either in the tsarist Russia, the USSR or contemporary Russia, b) a book in which a character or a place of the above period are involved. After an overview of the types of books and genres of comics about Russia (documentary, historical, adventure, science fiction, comical, as well as literary adaptations), an analysis of the visual aspect of comic books, mainly the covers, is given. Such recurring elements as snow, red color, five-pointed star, trains, blood, weapons, beautiful girls, ugly old ladies, and old cars are considered. We discuss the reasons for the practical absence of such stereotypes as black caviar, bears and some others. Then we analyze the role of the Russian language in the realization of the image of Russia, on the example of borrowed words, toponyms, anthroponyms, and utterances. Сyrillic, transliterated text and insertion of certain letters from Cyrillic into Latin are examined, as well as the presence or absence of translation and its correctness. The author underlines cases in which nonexistent toponyms, names and surnames, remotely resembling Russian words, are used. The question is whether such errors are accidental or indicate the authors' evident lack of interest in the adequate depiction of the reality. At the end of the paper the author proposes a frame for the analysis of any comic book about Russia. Apart from the mentioned above, this frame takes into account such aspects as characteristics of the "Russian" personages and their actions. Hopefully, the frame will make it possible to observe the evolution of the image of Russia, the link between stereotypes and the type of comic book as well as to compare the same image in French mass-media, literature, and movies. In the future we would like to find out whether the use of these stereotypes comes from the authors' insufficient knowledge of the Russian reality, or from their intention to create and reinforce the existing stereotypical image of this country.

scholarly journals Hypothetical Art and Art Education: The Educational Role of the Method of Hypothetical Artwork Modelling

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Jurij Selan
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
Theoretical Issue ◽  
Educational Role ◽  
Theoretical Construction ◽  
The One

A hypothetical artwork is an artwork that exists only as a fictional creation of an art theorist. The explicatory powers of such hypothetical artworks are mainly used by an art theorist to reflect on an art theoretical issue under consideration. Such an artwork has an intriguing and paradoxical nature. On the one hand, it is only fictitious, but, on the other hand, it tries to function as a real token, persuading the reader to trust it as if it were a real artwork. Even though this kind of argumentation can be deceiving, as it presents a statement of real art on the basis of fiction, it has some important explicatory abilities that can be put to good usein the art educational process. In this case, the construction of the hypothetical artwork is handled as the construction of a theoretical model. The author calls such theoretical construction the method of hypothetical artwork modelling, and its result the hypothetical artwork model. Such a hypothetical artwork model can be usefully employed when one wishesto encourage the student to become fictionally involved in the process of creation of an artwork, thus giving him or her more personal experience of problems that accompany the process of creating a real artwork. When such hypothetical experience is gained, the student can more efficiently learn about the considered art issue. In the paper, the authordemonstrates how the explicatory powers of the method of hypothetical artwork modelling can be put into educational practice regarding an issue taken from colour theory (i.e., the primary colours fallacy). 

scholarly journals The role of educational research in transforming educational policy and practice

2013 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-23
Author(s):  
Natasa Vujisic-Zivkovic
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Educational Policy And Practice

The paper discusses the role of educational research in transforming educational policy and practice. Our aim was to critically illuminate the possibilities, range and limitation soft he evidence-based concept of education reform. This concept implies an intensive re-examination of the epistemology of educational science, with the emphasis on studying the causal and consequential relations in education. It demands methodological rigour in educational research, culminating in the random sample experiment. It is also perceived that there is the problem of systematic dissemination and application of the obtained scientific findings in educational practice. On the other hand, the critics of this concept have observed that it is neo-positivist, mono-methodological, since it favors quantitative research, and as such insufficient for explaining and understanding educational phenomena and the contexts in which educational innovations are studied. At the same time, during the last decade, there has been another reconsideration of the role of scientific in forming of practitioners in their everyday work, as well as of the relation between research and the development of educational policy. Finally, philosophers of education again insist on the moral instead of on instrumental nature of educational practice. Theoretical analysis of the concept of evidence-based transformation of education has been supplemented by an analysis of social and institutional conditions in which the modern science of education develops.

“He Cared More about the Appeasement of Fanboys …”: Spatiotemporal Remediation in 300 (2006) and Watchmen (2009) and Textual Remediation in American Splendor (2003)

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Drew Morton
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Comic Books ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Horizontal Integration ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Media Conglomerates ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines spatiotemporal remediation in 300 (2006) and Watchmen (2009) and textual remediation in American Splendor (2003). More specifically, it explores the comic book panel and the film frame in terms of spatiotemporal construction and representation as well as the relationship between image and text in the comic. The chapter first provides an overview of the taxonomy of stylistic remediation before discussing how space and time are remediated in 300 and Watchmen. It then analyzes textual remediation in Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's American Splendor, based on Harvey Pekar's comics (1976–2008). It also reconsiders the role of horizontal integration and conglomeration in the process of stylistic remediation, suggesting that media conglomerates can capitalize upon the added visibility and cultural capital of comic books and their adaptations both directly and indirectly (through licensing rights).

scholarly journals Comics in museums. Paradoxes of the presence and absence of comics in museum exhibition practices

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-161
Author(s):  
Rafał Syska
Keyword(s):  
Comic Books ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
The Other ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Status ◽  
Presence And Absence ◽  
Museum Exhibition

The article analyzes the phenomenon of exhibitions dedicated to comic books, which are displayed in museum and gallery spaces. It presents the theory of contemporary narrative exhibitions. Using some tools of the latest research on the art of exhibition, the author analyzes the status of a comic book in a museum landscape. He reflects on the diversity of the comic book’s presence in everyday practices, the other nature of comic's experience by a visitor, and a link between comic books and other media, especially film. He describes the role of the viewer, who becomes the object in relations with a comic book transformed into a subject as a museum artifact.

KOMIK DI LINGKARAN INDUSTRI MUSIK

DeKaVe ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Terra Bajraghosa
Keyword(s):  
Comic Books ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Visual Narrative ◽  
Common Practices ◽  
Visual Style ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
The Common

Comic ges. Based on comprehention as a narrative media, comics in Indonesia are oftenly compared to bas-reliefs on Borobudur temple and Wayang Beber.. From many kind of stories Indonesian comic books recently offered, with the developed visual wrapping, some comics steal attentions by its unique themes. These comic books are created because of the inspiration and relation to music industry. These comic books couldn't be seen from the visual style alone, as they were created in many visual genres, but they could be seen from their relations to music industry, whether the mainstream or indie ones. These comic books are published together with the music CDs, telling fictional stories from factual bands or musicians, telling a band's factual stories, or created by one of the band members. To understand modes of creation of these music industry-related-comic books, visual narrative approach will be applied. Through visual narrative approach, the band members' or musician's necessity for telling stories via comics, beside the common practices via music and song lyrics, will be observed.Keywords : Comic book, music industry, visual narrative

Gender Differences in Clothing Worn in Current Popular Comic Books

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Landon Jossy
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Comic Books ◽  
Book Industry ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Lower Body ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Males And Females

This study looked at how males and females were portrayed, based on the amount of skin shown in the clothing worn.  A Content analysis was performed on a sample of 20 randomly selected popular comics from the last 3 years.  Both male and female characters were rated on how much skin they showed in three clothing categories; neck line, sleeve length, and lower body.  Results showed that in all 3 categories, women consistently wore more revealing clothing.  The findings demonstraetd that the comic book industry is comparable to other forms of media, in the sexualization of female characters, by having them wear more revealing clothing.

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