The original problem of the Special Collections division of the Michigan State University Library (MSU) was to establish a direction for the comic book section of the popular culture collection, and to state the holdings in the chosen area. The comics chosen as the target collection were the superhero comics of the 1960's through 1975, as this was the most nearly complete collection. The author's definition of a superhero is included. Through the study of the comic collection, a system for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cataloging, Childrens Literature, Comics (Publications), Indexing, Serials
This article explores translation strategies in English and French versions of Japanese comic books, comparing English and French dialogue text regarding local color, atmospherics, and characterization. Section 1 describes Japanese comic books. Section 2 examines translation strategies. Sections 3 and 4 discuss local color and character locus (translation of culture-specific items and of non-standard dialect and foreigner talk). Section 5 discusses the translation of register (situations of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comics (Publications), Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, French, Japanese,...
In Glasgow, Scotland (September, 1954), children massed in a graveyard to hunt for a vampire with iron teeth said to have slain and eaten "two wee boys." This incident was linked to a campaign for stricter censorship of children's reading, especially so-called "horror comics." While evidence connecting the vampire hunt and horror comics was neither found nor sought, evidence exists for an alternative source of the children's concept of a monster with iron teeth. Like parents...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Censorship, Children, Comics (Publications), Cultural Influences, Delinquency, Fear,...
The comic book featuring a deaf super-hero and the accompanying teacher guide are designed to teach junior high school students about nutrition. Section 1 of the teacher's guide outlines student activities which are grouped according to nutritional concepts. Objectives, subject areas, and resources are identified. Seven nutritional concepts, identified by the Illinois Nutrition Education and Training Program, are covered: physiological facts, nutrients, food handling, life cycle,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comics (Publications), Deafness, Instructional Materials, Junior High Schools,...
Comics help to shape, reflect, reinforce, and revise the beliefs and assumptions people have about themselves and others. This document addresses three issues related to the comics: (1) images of women in the comics by both male and female 20th century cartoonists; (2) conflicting and fragmented images of women in the comics; and (3) differences in content, message, and humor in mainstream comics versus feminist comics. Humor in mainstream comics has often worked to demoralize women in contrast...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cartoons, Comics (Publications), Consciousness Raising, Content Analysis, Females,...
The potential for computers in indexing popular fiction study materials is discussed, and specific examples of comic book indexing are provided through descriptions of projects and a bibliography. The 4-stage evolutionary development of popular fiction studies includes: (1) discovery and reading; (2) bibliography and collecting; (3) cataloging and indexing; and (4) history and criticism. Librarians, particularly with the help of computers, can contribute to the collection, preservation,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Automatic Indexing, Cartoons, Cataloging, Comics (Publications), Fiction, Indexes,...
Organizational cynicism, a recent entry into the study of organizational communication, explains the causes and consequences of employees' lack of trust in their organizations. Organizational cynicism exists on three levels: the cognitive belief in the organization's lack of integrity, the feeling of negative emotions toward that organization, and the behavioral expression of that belief and emotion. Recent research has shown correlations between organizational cynicism and measures of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comics (Publications), Employee Attitudes, Higher Education, Integrity, Job...
This paper assesses the impact that reading violent comic books has on hostile attributional bias using relationally aggressive scenarios. College students (N=85) read either very violent or mildly violent comic books. Participants rated the comic books on levels of violence, humor, interest level, and overall likeability. They also read five hypothetical stories in which a relationally aggressive event occurs to a child, but the intent of the provocateur is unclear. Participants then answered...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Aggression, Bias, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comics (Publications),...
The publications of the Marvel Comics Group warrant serious consideration as a legitimate narrative enterprise. While it is obvious that these comic books can be used in the classroom as a source of reading material, it is not so obvious that these comic books, with great economy, simplicity, and narrative density, can be used to further introduce novice readers to the techniques found in narrative and to the terms employed in the study and discussion of a narrative. The output of the Marvel...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescent Literature, Comics (Publications), Critical Reading, English Instruction,...
A study explored the connection between reading and writing by examining the writing produced by three young readers of action comic books. The subjects were in grades four and five in a British Columbia (Canada) school and were identified by a survey as being avid comic book readers. During three writing sessions, they were asked to produce stories like the ones they liked to read. The resulting writing was analyzed for the presence of the following list of features deemed characteristic to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Case Studies, Comics (Publications), Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades, Reading...
This paper examines the influence of Japanese comic illustrations on children's books in countries in East Asia. It has become increasingly obvious that recent children's books in countries like Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, as well as China and Malaysia/Indonesia contain illustrations with some features of the Japanese comic illustrations. This influence is primarily due to Japanese popular culture that pervades not only in comics and the media but also in fashion and pop culture especially...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Childrens Literature, Comics (Publications), Elementary Education, Foreign Countries,...
Two studies were conducted during 1973-1974 on a number of comic book styles as viewed by children classified as good, poor, and functionally illiterate readers. Subjects were exposed to a wide range of formats and reading difficulty in comic book slides, and their eye movement was observed and recorded. Results showed that good readers systematically attacked each frame regardless of format or content; however, poor readers displayed irratic eye movement and were quickly discouraged by large...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Books, Childrens Literature, Comics (Publications), Eye Movements, Layout...
The purpose of this Digest is to explore the evidence suggesting the effectiveness of literacy instruction through communicative and visual arts. It discusses the communicative and visual arts in literacy instruction; television and multiple media as instructional tools; using dramatic activities in language arts classrooms; and teaching language arts through comics. It concludes that when educators expand their methods of literacy instruction to include television, drama, multimedia, comics...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comics (Publications), Drama, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Arts, Mass...
Hypertext software permits students to write non-linear stories which include pictures and words. The characteristics of these stories may be affected by student and teacher understandings of how pictures and words may be combined to produce meanings for the reader. The use of images and words in comic books and children's picture-books contribute to a shared cultural experience for students and teachers. The consequence is the initial conceptualization of theory applicable to hypertext and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cartoons, Comics (Publications), Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education,...
This practicum sought to improve reading vocabulary and comprehension in fourth-grade students by using comic books 30 minutes per day as a supplement to the regular basal reading program. High-interest comic books were used by a class section of 18 students in the experimental group, for a period of four months. Another class section of 20 students was selected as a control group. Instructional units and lesson plans using comic books were developed to teach specifically identified reading...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Basal Reading, Comics (Publications), Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Practicums,...
Noting that comic books are known and read by a wide variety of students, this paper presents brief descriptions of 30 ways that teachers can use comic books in a wide variety of subjects and grade levels. The ideas for using comic books in the paper are designed to help teachers become aware of what their students are reading and to use what students already know as a starting point for instruction (and instructions are addressed directly to students). The teaching ideas presented in the paper...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cartoons, Class Activities, Comics (Publications), Content Area Writing, Elementary...
The paper is a methodological inquiry into the interpretation of qualitative data. It explores a grounded-theory approach to the synthesis of data and examines, in particular, the construction of categories. It focuses on ways of organizing and attaching meaning to data, as research problems embedded in a cultural context are explored. A qualitative research training task with 4-5 graduate students per group (4 or 5 groups per class) evaluating comic strip culture, was used to show how...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Classification, Comics (Publications), Context Effect, Data Analysis, Evaluation...
This issue of the "Arizona English Bulletin" contains 38 articles related to popular culture and the teaching of English. The articles discuss such topics as language in the popular arts, establishing a popular culture library, defining sexism in popular culture, detective literature and its uses in the traditional classroom, popular literature as an introduction to the classics, reading comics, television and critical skills, selecting science fiction for class study, subliminal...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comics (Publications), Commercial Television, English Instruction, Instructional...
This newsletter on development projects in developing nations include the following major articles: (1) "An Insider's Perspective: Dr. Henry Cassirer Talks to DCR about Development Communication and Unesco"; (2) "Comic Books Carry Health Messages to Rural Children in Honduras," by Oscar Vigano; (3) "Computers Come to the Aid of Planners: New Software Package Available," by Judy Brace; (4) "Radio Improving Status of Women in Nepal," by Kathleen Goodman and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Audiovisual Aids, Comics (Publications), Computer Programs, Developing Nations,...
This booklet presents 10 activities that deal with nonverbal communication. Activities in the booklet involve nonverbal messages present in the style of lettering, design, and color in advertisements; comic strips; facial expressions; body movement; idioms (such as "to be all eyes"); personal space; handshakes; clothing; and nonverbal communication on television programs. (RS)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advertising, Class Activities, Clothing, Comics (Publications), Communication Skills,...
A study explored the debate over comic books and children in the 1950s, addressing the communication role of comic books in forming a new community of comic book fans during that period. Using E.C. (Educational Comics) comic books as a case study, the conventions of the comic books, correspondence between producers and consumers, and articles by anti-comic book critics were examined to analyze how the comics contributed to what critics perceived as a new community of children and youth distinct...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Audience Response, Case Studies, Childhood Interests, Comics (Publications),...
The eye movement patterns of good readers, poor readers and functionally illiterate children are discussed in relation to television and filmstrip viewing and comic book reading. Studies conducted since 1972 on the eye movement patterns of children between 9 and 11 years of age are described and the results discussed. Suggestions are presented concerning the production of TV shows, comic books and filmstrips for use in reading remediation. These include (1) the most effective use of printed...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comics (Publications), Educational Television, Elementary Education, Eye Fixations,...
This study investigated the effects of reading extremely violent versus nonviolent comic books on 249 introductory psychology students' interpretations of overt and relational provocation situations. After reading their assigned comic books, participants read hypothetical stories in which an overt or relational aggression occurred, but the intent of the provocateur was ambiguous. After each story, participants were asked a series of questions about the provocateur's intent. Responses were coded...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Aggression, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comics (Publications), Higher...
Visual strategies that involve students in comprehending and writing processes while achieving whole-brain input can strengthen the bond between language and experience. Both the analytical, sequential, left brain hemisphere and the holistic, visual/spatial right brain hemisphere can be stimulated in oral and written expression through the use of three visual arrangement plans: in the lower grades, visual stories can acquaint young children with some of the major themes of literature and can...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cerebral Dominance, Comics (Publications), Elementary Education, Instructional...
The study is a methodological inquiry into the interpretation of qualitative data. It explores a grounded theory approach to the synthesis of data, and examines, in particular, construction of categories. It focuses on ways of organizing data and attaching meaning, as research problems embedded in cultural context are explored. A qualitative research training task, with 4-7 subjects per group (4 or 5 groups per class), evaluating comic strip culture was used. We wanted to know how different...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cartoons, Classification, Coding, Comics (Publications), Constructivism (Learning),...
A study of the influence of English on modern Finnish was designed to determine how Anglicisms are used, how they are understood, and how they are adapted to the Finnish language system. Features of present-day Finnish were analyzed to discover to what extent the Finnish language and the Finns' sense of language are changing. Anglicisms were studied on the lexical, morphological, phonological, semantic, syntactic, pragmatic, and cultural level. The first study phase involved material collection...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comics (Publications), Cultural Influences, English (Second Language), Fiction,...
This paper describes how comic books are used as instructional materials in an intensive English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) course and discusses the rationale for using them. The students in the course have low-intermediate English language skills with limited discourse and interactive competence. Comic books are used because they are authentic, highly visual, culturally current, use a constant register, and contain limited lexical phrases. Analysis of the language in the specific text used, a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Classroom Techniques, Comics (Publications), English (Second Language), Instructional...
Using the newspaper to provide opportunities for students to learn current events and further develop writing skills is described. Seven activities outline how to use cooperative learning to teach current events. Four types of assignments based on newspapers develop various types of writing skills: (1) personal writing; (2) descriptive writing; (3) expository writing; and (4) persuasive writing. The next activity focuses on the triangle style of writing. Social studies activities provide active...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Citizenship Education, Comics (Publications), Contracts, Descriptive Writing,...
The comic book is discussed as an aid to improving English conversational ability in preadolescents and teenagers. A description of some of the characteristics of conversational English, such as contractions, stereotyped phrases, and conversational fillers, should precede the presentation of data from comic books. Classroom techniques suggested for use with comic book material include having the class rewrite the story in more formal style, and listening comprehension practice with taped...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Class Activities, Comics (Publications), Conversational Language Courses, Educational...
The methodology of interpretation of qualitative data was explored using a grounded theory approach to the synthesis of data, examining the construction of categories in particular. The focus is on ways of organizing data and attaching meaning, as research problems embedded in cultural context are explored. A qualitative research training task with 4 groups of 3 to 5 members each (for a total of 27 graduate student subjects) evaluating comic strip culture was used to address the consistency...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Classification, Comics (Publications), Cultural Context, Data Interpretation,...
In society, information/ideas are communicated through various media (words, symbols, illustrations, etc.). When analyzing comic strips, it is noticeable that each has a different style, point of view, setting, plot, and summary, communicated not only through words, but through illustrations and style--creating comic strips can summarize various ideas through illustrations that otherwise could not be expressed through words alone. This lesson (lasting 3-4 class periods) intends for students to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Childrens Art, Childrens Writing, Classroom Techniques, Comics (Publications),...
The Mass Media section of the proceedings of this conference of journalism historians contains the following 10 papers: "Broadcast News, Cable TV and the Telcos: A Historical Examination of the Rhetorical Forces Affecting the Electronic Distribution of Information to the American Television Public" (John E. Craft and Frances R. Matera); "WAKR Radio: A History" (David Ritchey and Thomas Miles); "The Missouri State Council of Defense: Boosting Morale and Voluntary Action...
Topics: ERIC Archive, American Indians, Broadcast Industry, Censorship, Comics (Publications),...
This is the introductory unit to the second semester "Comparing Political Experiences" course which focuses on specific, controversial political issues. The unit uses a comic book format to teach 12th-grade students the fundamental political concepts of system, political-system types, and political experiences which will be used in later units that focus on specific issues. The unit is self-instructional, and students proceed at their own rate. The unit centers around the fictitious...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Civics, Class Activities, Comics (Publications), Course Content, Grade 12,...
Project "Freestyle" involved the development of prototypical television materials and a comic book intended to combat sex-role stereotyping in the career-related attitudes of nine to twelve-year-old children. This paper reports the results of four types of research conducted during the early development of the television series to determine the degree to which the thinking of children in the target audience is affected by sex-role stereotypes, important influences on children's...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Awareness, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Childrens Television, Comics...
The purpose of this publication is to: (1) offer an overview of the Internet and its educational applications; (2) provide teachers and students with a guide for a hands-on experience with the Internet; (3) show how educational resources from around the world can be brought into the classroom; and (4) show how some educators have used the Internet. Dedicated to improving mathematics and science education for students everywhere, teacher Juanetta Jones stands for educational equity, making...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Information, Comics (Publications), Computer Uses in Education, Educational...
The purpose of this comic-activity book is to teach children how to be safe and how to deal with peer pressure. The book centers on the characters McGruff the Crime Dog, his nephew Scruff, and American Indian children living on a reservation. Scruff, who is a child figure, encounters situations that children may experience or worry about, involving drugs, alcohol, gangs, weapons, sexual abuse, and domestic violence. By remembering his uncle's good advice, Scruff is better able to handle such...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Alcohol Education, American Indian Education, Children, Comics (Publications), Drug...
A guide for college instructors and part of an in-progress book, this document illustrates the effectiveness of humor and graphic art in enhancing presentations and promoting learning. Graphic aids and the combination of verbal and visual materials provide excellent supplements to college lectures and discussions, and help communicate concepts by appealing to more than one sense and learning style. The author encourages positive images of people from various races, abilities, body types and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Instruction, Comics (Publications), Community Colleges, Computer Graphics,...
This volume outlines potential uses of many of the topics associated with daily newspapers, music, film, theater, and sports for vocabulary development and grammar review in French language instruction. The emphasis is on the advantage of using authentic, current materials prepared for the general public but somewhat familiar to students. The chapters focus on: reviewing grammar with headlines and comic strips, film reviews and scenarios, teaching about music through reviews, advertisements and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advertising, Cartoons, Catalogs, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Comics...
This kit of materials, designed for trainers of adult literacy teachers, attempts to capture the experience of five adult literacy workers from Mozambique on a study tour of Nicaragua and Brazil, and to introduce the user to the concept, methodology, and tools of "popular literacy." The kit both reports an experience and offers a set of resources, but is not intended as a teacher training curriculum. The materials consist of a users' guide, background documents, activities and tools...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Classroom Techniques, Comics...
Intended as a working document for communications professionals and as reference material for planning administrators, the study compared comic books and fotonovelas, and analyzed their use in health and nutrition, family planning, agriculture, and literacy programs in developing nations. Most of the somewhat limited efforts to use comics and fotonovelas dealt with family planning. Generally, the efforts were not entirely successful and the quality of productions was irregular, because...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Agriculture, Comics (Publications), Developing Nations,...
Six issues of the newsletter "Development Communication Report" focus primarily on the use of communication technologies in developing nations to educate their people. The issues included in this collection are: (1) Summer 1985, which highlights agricultural, health, and educational projects that have proven successful; (2) Autumn 1985, which concentrates on health communications; (3) Winter 1986, which focuses on the purpose of visuals, how to use them in training, and how people's...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Strategies, Comics (Publications), Communications Satellites, Contraception,...
This collection of papers falls into three categories: stylistics, discourse analysis, and language pedagogy. The papers are: "Feedback on Writing: Attitudes and Uptake" (Kenneth Anderson, Cathy Benson, and Tony Lynch); "An Alternative View of 'Like': Its Grammaticalisation in Conversational American English and Beyond" (Isabelle Buchstaller); "Examining the Intangible Process: Lotus Screencam as an Aid to Investigating Student Writing" (Eric Glendinning, Ron...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Learning, Comics (Publications), Computer Uses in Education, Discourse...
This packet consists of 11 learning activities for middle school students related to the 12 key topics in Ohio's Individual Career Plan (ICP) process. The activities focus on workplaces and careers; tools of the trade (list occupations in which tools are used); it's my job (skills necessary for a pictured job, reasons the worker might lose his/her job, and other jobs the worker could do); a day in the life of an art student (with a questionnaire with questions regarding academic planning,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Choice, Career Development, Comics (Publications), Decision Making, Economics,...
Foreign language and bilingual-migrant supervisors in the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction in Illinois are seeking to broaden the goals of foreign language instruction by introducing cultural education along with language instruction. This publication consists of 17 articles on many aspects of the teaching of culture in foreign language classes, specifically Spanish classes. Information includes: (1) a one-act play-commentary on the lack of relevance in foreign language...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Comics (Publications),...
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 20 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: the teaching of children's literature; the study of American Indian literature and Biblical literature at the college level; the relationship between response to emotion-oriented poetry and emotions, interests, and personal needs; the use of role-playing, improvisation, and performance in the teaching of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies, Awards, Biblical Literature, Black...
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