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61.026 - Comics and Critical Engagement in Literacy Education and Research
Sun, April 19, 10:35am to 12:05pm, Hyatt, Floor: West Tower - Gold Level, New OrleansSession Type: Symposium
Abstract
This symposium features four papers that explore a variety of ways in which young people utilize comics and/or manga to engage in critical inquiry, to perform and enact multicultural literate identities, and to invoke community ways of knowing. Our four papers collectively highlight the educational and communicative affordances of the comics medium by locating its potential not within skills-based approaches to literacy acquisition but within socially-situated topics pertaining to culture, diversity, and critique.
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Children Reading and Authoring Comics to Critically Inquire Into Gender - David Eric Low, California State University - Fresno
Pokémon Creations: Investigating the Intersection of Identity, Social Practice, and Critical Literacy in Youths' Engagements With Manga-Inspired Trading Card Games - Rob Simon, University of Toronto
Indigeneity and the Graphic Novel: Native American Students Respond to Louise Erdrich's "The Shawl" - Christopher William Johnson, University of Minnesota - Duluth
The Form and Function of an After-School Comics Club - Stergios Botzakis, The University of Tennessee - Knoxville