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Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1080/00377996.2012.665957 BibTeX citation key: Clark2013 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: Comic biography, Didactics, Empirical research, History comics, Nonfiction, Popular culture Creators: Clark Collection: The Social Studies |
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This article examined the value of using nonfiction graphic novels as historical narratives in the social studies curriculum. Preservice teachers evaluated several graphic novels and identified attributes of graphic novels that could contribute to students’ development of historical thinking and understanding of multiple perspectives. Despite the preservice teachers’ value for graphic novels as resources and their desire to use them in their future classrooms, all of the preservice teachers identified reasons why they would not be able to use graphic novels in their future school context. The findings suggested that the preservice teachers’ desire to be accepted by their school community took precedence over their intention to use resources that they deemed engaging and beneficial for student learning.
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