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Publication Date: 2019
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Are Comic Books Appropriate for Teaching History? Three Suggestions for Greek Primary Education
Education 3-13, v47 n3 p358-365 2019
The tremendous impact of comics to young people at the beginning and the middle of the twentieth century drew the attention of educators, thus the debate concerning the use of comics at school began very early. Some studies revealed that Greek pupils think of History as an extremely boring lesson, full of names and dates. Therefore, there is a need for an alternative approach that can render the lesson interesting and pleasant. This paper presents three didactic suggestions regarding the use of comics in teaching History. The first suggestion presents a single unit, the second is a two-hour revision of a textbook's entire unit and the last suggestion is a four-month project on what Asterix can teach us about History.
Descriptors: Cartoons, History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Elementary Education, Textbooks, Creative Teaching
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Greece
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