Team Photo from 2019 Popular Culture Association Presentation: The Avengers Save Higher Education
“When Supergirl recovered from Luthor’s trap, she was certain that Kal [Superman] was going to somehow send her back into obscurity because of her stupid mistake, but he just smiled: ‘Always do your best. The rest is learning'” (in Crisis on Infinite Earths by GraphicAudio).
COMIC Book Pedagogy Principles
The key principles of COMIC Book Pedagogy are:
- C is for Cool where we use comic books and other pop culture materials to get students excited about learning.
- O is for Our Selves and Others where we focus on our Holistic Well-Being.
- M is for Multimodal Composing where we help students to use technology to compose in a broad range of forms.
- I is for Inclusion where we help students to learn to value diversity and to empathize with others.
- C is for Collaborative Learning where we help students to learn and write together.
Origin of the Term “Comic Book Pedagogy”
This website provides resources on Comic Book Pedagogy. The term “Comic Book Pedagogy” was coined by Dr. Gian Pagnucci in 2019 for a collaborative presentation at the 2019 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC).
That presentation was featured in an article in a 2019 issue of the Council Chronicle published by the National Teachers of English (NCTE)
- Collopy, T. (2019, September) Comic book pedagogy: Save English, save the world. Council Chronicle 29(1), 18-21. (NCTE membership required for access)
Why Do Comics and Superheroes Matter?
- Video: “What is it to be a hero?”
- This video captures perfectly why we need stories of heroes, to encourage us to be heroic ourselves, to choose to do good whenever and however we can
- “It’s the choices that make us who we are. And we can always choose to do what’s right” (Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Man)
Comic Book Pedagogy Overview
- The Powers of Comic Book Pedagogy
- Bibliography of Comic Book Pedagogy
- Comic Book Pedagogy Teachers
- Comics Studies Texts & Graphic Novels
Comic Book Pedagogy Lessons
- An Intergalactic Mission
- SFU Avengers Academy
- Video: Creative Writing Prompt–Invent Your Own Superhero
A Course on Comic Books and Superheroes
Comic Book Pedagogy Presentation
Team Photo from 2019 CCCC Presentation: The Avengers Save Composition–A Live Super Teachers Performance
Team Photo from 2019 CCCC Presentation: The Avengers Save Composition–A Live Super Teachers Performance
