Visual Journeys Through Wordless Narratives: An International Inquiry With Immigrant Children and the Arrival - Couverture rigide

Arizpe, Dr Evelyn; Colomer, Dr Teresa; Martínez-Roldán, Dr Carmen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 178093758X ISBN 13 : 9781780937588

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

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 Tan s 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

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 Tan s complex wordless picturebook, The Arrival. Framed by Tan s 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

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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: 2014
• ISBN 10: 178093758X
• ISBN 13: 9781780937588
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288