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Reading Comic Books Critically: How Japanese Comic Books Influence Taiwanese Students [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Education knows no boundaries but hot button topics, like comic books, demonstrate school, teacher and parent limitations. Japanese comic books (manga) are a litmus test of pedagogical tolerance. Because they play an important role in the lives of most
Hsu, Fang-Tzu
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Using Comic Books to Motivate Literacy Development in the Classroom

open access: yes, 2006
The purpose of this review of the literature is to examine ways of using comic books as a new medium to help increase students\u27 motivation to read and increase their skills in literacy.
Real, Adolfo, Jr.
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The Comic Book

open access: yes
AbstractThis chapter contains the comic book, realised following the methodological steps analysed in the previous chapters. The participants in the comic format close the book.
Poto Margherita Paola, Parola Giulia
openaire   +2 more sources

Caring for forests between attitude and platitude. Social relationships with nature in industrial forestry in Äänekoski, Finland

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Forests play a pivotal role in sustainability transitions. This article explores how people's relationships with forests, particularly how they care for or take care of them, shape and reflect broader tendencies and tensions in forest utilization and governance.
Jana Rebecca Holz
wiley   +1 more source

Micro‐transitions and work identity: The case of academic entrepreneurs

open access: yesStrategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This paper examines how academic entrepreneurs—scientists who found research‐based startups while remaining in academia—construct and sustain their professional identities amid frequent transitions between academic and entrepreneurial roles.
Marouane Bousfiha, Henrik Berglund
wiley   +1 more source

Book review: Superhero Comics

open access: yesFafnir, 2018
Gavaler, Chris. Superhero Comics. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. ISBN 978-1-4742-2635-6.
openaire   +4 more sources

Strategic framing of novel ideas: How contestation shapes the evolution of novelty

open access: yesStrategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Entrepreneurs use strategic framing to gain support for their novel ventures, products, and services. A key challenge entrepreneurs face is that audiences often contest frames that introduce novel ideas, especially when these ideas disrupt audiences' mental and business models.
Janina Klein   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Women in Comic Books

open access: yes, 2012
Recently, superheroes have dominated the box office with a number of films and television with years long shows. But, scholars find that there remains a misrepresentation of women as superheroes.
Eddinger, Kacee
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“Being Nice” as Modus Vivendi in Classrooms: A Collective Behavior Approach to Deviant Behavior in Primary Schools

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This study of first‐year primary school draws on Goffman's concept of “collective behavior” to examine how order is established and disrupted through the mutual adjustment of all participants' actions. We employed a multi‐method longitudinal design, using semi‐standardized observations and qualitative interviews with teachers and children at three ...
Doris Bühler‐Niederberger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

ComSem : digitization and semantic annotation of comic books [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The popularity of digital comic books keeps rising, causing an increase in interest from traditional publishers. Digitizing existing comic books can require much work though, since older comic books were made when digital versions were not taken into ...
Joachim Van Herwegen   +8 more
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