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Cohn, Neil – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2021
Research in verbal and visual narratives has often emphasized backward-looking inferences, where absent information is subsequently inferred. However, comics use conventions like star-shaped "action stars" where a reader "knows" events are undepicted "at that moment," rather than omitted entirely. We contrasted the…
Descriptors: Inferences, Cognitive Processes, Brain, Visual Learning
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Kayaalp, Fatih; Basçi Namli, Zeynep; Meral, Elif – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2021
The aim of this study is to examine how the mental images in the minds of preservice social studies teachers regarding current global issues are illustrated in the cartoons they draw. The phenomenological research design was used in the present study, which was conducted with 39 preservice social studies teachers, who had previously taken the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Social Problems, Global Approach, Current Events
Joseph Christian Leblanc – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to investigate the cognitive and multimodal strategies used by adolescent students as they read comic texts and traditional prose texts. This study looked at the strategies employed by adolescents in an eighth-grade English class. The cognitive and multimodal strategies that the participants used while reading were…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Cartoons, Prose, Reading Strategies
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Vardanian, Maryna – Children's Literature in Education, 2022
The numerous ecological catastrophes of the twentieth century caused by humans have found their way into mass culture. Among them is the Chornobyl nuclear accident that took place in Ukraine in 1986. This disaster became a subject of reflection not only in Ukrainian literature but also in world films and computer games. Along with other works on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nuclear Energy, Facilities, Fiction
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Jamie Loizzo; Peyton N. Beattie; J. C. Bunch; Cecilia E. Suarez; Shelli D. Rampold; Bradley M. Coleman – NACTA Journal, 2022
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has impacted many aspects of education, as well as the lives of those involved in preparing and carrying out teaching and learning amidst the ongoing pandemic. At the collegiate level, while both students and faculty alike have navigated virtual learning spaces, one specific population has experienced…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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Ayse Arzu Ari; Baris Demir – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2023
The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of using manga comics in Linear Algebra course on elementary mathematics teacher candidates' attitudes and achievement towards the course. Pre-test-post-test control group experimental design was used in the study. The study was conducted with 48 elementary mathematics teacher candidates' taking…
Descriptors: Algebra, Cartoons, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers
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Xiu Wen Tay; Tin Lam Toh; Lu Pien Cheng – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2024
A research project on using comics for teaching mathematics was initiated in one Singapore primary school. One class of Grade 5 (students of age 11-12) students was exposed to comics for mathematics instruction. This paper reports a case study of seven students' perception of the features of the comics instructional package and how these features…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Cartoons
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John N. Ponsaran – Education and Society, 2024
Through auto-ethnography, this paper explores the use of critical visual methodologies as a pedagogical approach in teaching and learning development studies based on the author's lived experiences and living encounters as a development educator for the last two decades of his academic career. Specifically, the study unpacks the adoption of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Developing Nations, Area Studies
Leanne Ellis – Knowledge Quest, 2024
This article is about what the future of reading looks like. Currently many districts across the country--including New York City--are adopting research-based methods called the science of reading that focus on mechanics. Leanne Ellis surmises the future of reading holds great promise if school librarians can promote, showcase, and advocate for a…
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction, Reading Motivation
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Christian M. Hines; Rene M. Rodriguez-Astacio; Henry Miller – Journal of Children's Literature, 2024
The story of American superheroes cannot be told without the publisher DC and its evolving audience. During the latter 1930s and early 1940s, DC Comics assembled a catalog of superheroes that became the archetype of the genre itself: Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman. As DC Comics' audience and market grew throughout the decades, the company's…
Descriptors: Literary Devices, Disproportionate Representation, Racial Factors, Cartoons
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Kachorsky, Dani; Reid, Stephanie F. – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2020
Drawing from theories of visual culture, social semiotics, and multimodality, the researchers conducted a qualitative multimodal content analysis of the covers of 21 young adult (YA) books that had been adapted as graphic novels (GNs). This study showed that the GN covers emphasized character and that the ages of the represented characters seemed…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Adolescent Literature, Cartoons, Novels
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Pilgrim, Jodi; McLaughlin, Lori; Trotti, Judy – Texas Association for Literacy Education Yearbook, 2019
In this article, the authors encourage readers to get their minds IN the gutters--the literal gutters of graphic novels, that is. Gutters, one of many graphic novel text features, provide visual and metacognitive insight readers must use to make meaning as they read. Teachers must provide explicit instruction regarding these features and other…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Novels, Layout (Publications), Direct Instruction
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Ricardo Martinez, Editor; Ezequiel Aleman, Editor; Ángela Shamira Morales Pereira, Contributor; Ana Corona, Contributor; Rodrigo Alemán, Contributor; Kaleb Germinaro, Contributor; Alvin Logan Jr., Contributor; Natacha Monestel Mora, Contributor; Julia Iriarte, Contributor; Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur, Contributor; Sediqa Temori, Contributor; Mathias Abraha, Contributor; Josephine H. Pham, Contributor; Angel Trazo, Contributor; Petra J. Lange, Contributor; Erin Perry, Contributor; greg wickenkamp, Contributor; Allison JoAnn Lester, Contributor; Eden Kadosh, Contributor; Atlas Suarez, Contributor; Abigail Rubinstein, Contributor; Nicole Mirra, Contributor – Bank Street College of Education, 2025
The theme of Issue 53 of the "Bank Street Occasional Paper Series, Speculative Youth Participatory Action Research: Narratives of Imaginative Social Dreaming," arose from the perception that many youths and teachers assumed that youth participatory action research (YPAR) was unattainable to them. This issue argues that, to the contrary,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Participatory Research, Imagination, Youth
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Parlakyildiz, Irmak; Seven, Serdal; Parlakyildiz, Belgin – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
The present study aims to analyse the perceptions of reality of 5-6 year old children about the cartoons they watch. The study group of the research includes pre-schoolers. Within the scope of the study, a private pre-school and a public preschool which volunteered to be a part of the study were determined, and the study was carried out with 101…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Childrens Attitudes, Television Viewing, Cartoons
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Cathy Weng; Kifle Kassaw; Pei-Shan Tsai; Tsai-Ju Lee – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study aimed to make and introduce a curriculum in Taiwan for fifth-grade students, merging Scratch animation with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The curriculum combined the Scratch Reflective AI digital learning platform with conventional teaching methods to assess its effect on students' empathy, self-efficacy, and scriptwriting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Sustainable Development
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