Visual Journeys Through Wordless Narratives - Couverture souple

Arizpe, Evelyn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1780936370 ISBN 13 : 9781780936376

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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Visual Journeys Through Wordless Narratives is a particularly timely and important publication ... a thoughtful reflection on the way immigrant children are often treated in busy classrooms and schools --Valerie Coghlan, independent researcher, Dublin, Ireland, International Research Society for Children's Literature

Visual Journeys Through Wordless Narratives provides an in-depth look at how multimodal texts offer openings for students from (im)migrant backgrounds to mobilize their transnational knowledge in the classroom. Arizpe, Colmer and Martínez-Roldáns work embodies the spirit of the texts they feature and their resource orientations to students. Through cross-cultural collaborations and research methodologies that attend to visual modalities, they provide a rich example of 21st century literacies that is sure to inspire researchers and teachers alike. --María Paula Ghiso, Professor of Literacy Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA,

This is a very important book. It is timely as it appears at a time when educators are beginning to explore the important place of visual literacy in intercultural education and in language education as migrations brings new diversities to classrooms worldwide. It offers, significantly, important resources for opening out the imagination and enabling new visions of critical and social learning to emerge, in a scaffolded context. The authors have produced an invigorating and excitingly intellectual contribution to the field of intercultural literacy studies. Alison Phipps, Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies, University of Glasgow, UK, In this evocative book, Evelyn Arizpe and her co-authors reflect on their ambitious research project to explore responses of immigrant children in Glasgow, Barcelona and Arizona to Shaun Tans complex wordless picturebook, The Arrival. Framed by Tans eloquent introduction and by the authors in-depth analyses of the students responses, the book offers readers new understandings of the power of visual narratives to engage these young immigrants literacy skills, personal reflections and imaginative powers. This is an important new international addition to texts on picturebooks, visual literacy and issues of immigration. Ingrid Johnston, Professor, Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta, Canada, Excellent research that examines the personal and social complexity of the immigration from the perspective of children's response on that subject in the picturebook. This study offers much more than an analysis of reception and interpretation of children's literature. Through a rigorous methodology of ethnographic and collaborative nature, this study contrasts the perceptions of informants from three contexts (Glasgow, Arizona and Barcelona) and feedback from children about their experience and their experiences on immigration are evaluated. The careful methodology of this study exposes the process of the navigating the interpretive Process up to conclusions on Cultural Identity, Learning and Teaching mediation and to determine strategies for Inclusive Pedagogy. Topicality of the subject and the prospects of analysis of this research point to the visual strategies as a key reference for inclusive and collaborative innovation in Literacy. Antonio Mendoza, Professor of Language and Literature Didactics, University of Barcelona, Spain, Product of an outstanding international research team, Visual Journeys Through Wordless Narratives offers the reader narratives by immigrant children about their feelings, emotions, experiences and knowledge inspired by Shaun Tans famous picture book The Arrival. Anchored in the metaphor of the journey, and using a visual journey as support, this unique, fascinating, and well-organized volume is a fine tribute to Tan and a genuine hymn to teaching and integration of immigrant children from diverse cultural and linguistic origins. --Maria da Graça Pinto, Professor, University of Porto, Portugal,

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Winner of the Literacy Research Association's 2015 Edward B. Fry Book Award

Immigration is an ongoing, global phenomenon and schools and teachers in host countries must continually find new ways of working with the increasing numbers of immigrant pupils, including refugees and asylum seekers. Language and literacy are crucial for inclusion in a new context but these must be developed in spaces where these children feel safe to explore themes that resonate with their experiences; to express their understanding and to engage in intercultural exchange.

Visual Journeys Through Wordless Narratives presents the exploration of response strategies to Shaun Tan's The Arrival. The inquiry was carried out in educational settings, with children from many different parts of the world, in four host countries: the Uk, Spain, Italy and the Usa. The findings reveal the benefits of using wordless narratives such as picturebooks and graphic novels together with visual strategies to support immigrant children's literary understandings and visual literacy. They also reveal the wealth of experiences the children bring with them which have the potential to transform educational practices.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1780936370
• ISBN 13: 9781780936376
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288