Education and the Female Superhero

Education and the Female Superhero
Author: Andrew L. Grunzke
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2019-12-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1498596851

Considering a variety of female superhero narratives, including World War II-era Wonder Woman comics, the 1970s television programs The Secrets of Isis and The Bionic Woman, and the more recent Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Education and the Female Superhero: Slayers, Cyborgs, Sorority Sisters, and Schoolteachers argues that they share a vision of education as the path to female empowerment. In his analysis, Andrew L. Grunzke examines female superheroes who are literally teachers or students, exploring examples of female superheroes whose alter egos work as schoolteachers or attend school during the workday and fight evildoers when they are outside the classroom. Taking a broader view of education, Grunzke argues that the superheroine in popular media often sees and articulates her own role as being an educator. In these narratives, female superheroes often take it upon themselves to teach self-defense tactics, prevent victimization, and encourage people (especially female victims) to pursue formal education. Moreover, Grunzke shows how superheroines tend to see their relationship with their adversaries as rehabilitative and educative, trying to set them on the correct path rather than merely subdue or dominate them.

Education and the Female Superhero

Education and the Female Superhero
Author: Andrew L Grunzke
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-05-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781498596862

Exploring a variety of female superhero narratives, including Wonder Woman comics and television shows like The Secrets of Isis, The Bionic Woman, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this book argues that twentieth-century superheroine stories historically depicted education as the ...

Everyday Superheroes

Everyday Superheroes
Author: Erin Twamley
Publisher: Wise Ink
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2019-03-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781634891981

Deep in space, on Mars, a robot rover searches for traces of water, one of the key things needed to support life. Back on Earth, Dr. Vandi Verma guides the robot, Curiosity, in its search. People all around the world were enchanted by animations like Princess and the Frog and Bravest Warriors, but before they ever hit the screen, Sonya Carey imagined and designed them. These are just some of the colorful careers of these Everyday Superheroes making the world a greener, healthier, and cleaner place.

Ghost Friends Forever #1

Ghost Friends Forever #1
Author: Monica Gallagher
Publisher: Charmz
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2019-01-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 154580043X

Sophia Campos is only just getting used to her new life with her divorced dad and managing their business of helping ghosts, when she meets a ghost girl who changes everything. Not because she’s a ghost - but because of what it brings out in Sophia. Soon her brother, her best friend, her old crush Jake, and her parents are all entangled together on solving the case of the dead girl. Because she’s not just any average ghost girl. She also holds a piece of the puzzle to something Sophia cares about very much -what was the paranormal event that caused her parents to split up in the first place? Ghost Friends Forever brings together YALSA-nominated writer Monica Gallagher and rising star Kata Kane. For fans of Nancy Drew and Scooby-Doo.

Comic Connections

Comic Connections
Author: Sandra Eckard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2018
Genre: Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN:

With the popularity of comic adaptations on television and at the movies, these current topics can be a great way to engage students by bringing characters and stories they connect with into the classroom to help them build the skills that they need to be successful. Comic Connections: Reflecting on Women in Popular Culture is designed to help teachers from middle school through college find exciting new strategies that they can use right away as part of their curricular goals. This colume in the Comic Connections series focuses on female characters--Wonder Woman, Peggy Carter, and Lois Lane, to name a few--with each chapter deconstructing a specific character to help students engage in meaningful conversations, writing projects, and other activities that will complement and enhance their literacy skills--back cover.

Writing Superheroes

Writing Superheroes
Author: Anne Haas Dyson
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 274
Release:
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780807770160

Based on an ethnographic study in an urban classroom of 7- to 9-year olds, Writing Superheroes examines how young school children use popular culture, especially superhero stories, in the unofficial peer social world and in the official school literacy curriculum. In one sense, the book is about children "writing superheroes"-about children appropriating superhero stories in their fiction writing and dramatic play on the playground and in the classroom. These stories offer children identities as powerful people who do battle against evil and win. The stories, however, also reveal limiting ideological assumptions about relations between people-boys and girls, adults and children, people of varied heritages, physical demeanors, and social classes. The book, then, is also about children as "writing superheroes." With the assistance of their teacher, the observed children became superheroes of another sort, able to take on powerful cultural storylines. In this book, Anne Dyson examines how the children's interest in and conflicts about commercial culture give rise to both literacy and social learning, including learning how to participate in a community of differences.

Teaching Is for Superheroes!

Teaching Is for Superheroes!
Author: Daniel Bergman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2023-05-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1394153732

This isn't your average teaching book. With a fun, comic-book-inspired layout, Teaching Is for Superheroes! skips the information overload and gives you practical action steps for igniting enthusiasm in your K-12 classroom and achieving your professional goals. Now more than ever, teachers are in high demand—yet the threat of burnout still looms large. This book will help you keep the spark alive, engaging you in a deeper examination of education by way of entertaining superhero archetypes and tropes. What’s your teaching origin story? Your secret identity? Your powers, weaknesses, nemeses? The teachers-as-superheroes metaphor provides a rich venue through which you can thoughtfully analyze your purpose and pedagogy. This high quality, eye-catching book offers you an inspirational springboard for practical insight and application in the classroom. You’ll gain ideas for surviving your first year, navigating social media as a teacher, interacting productively with colleagues and parents, using tech in the classroom, prioritizing self-care, harnessing your teacher “superpowers,” and even dressing for teaching success. The school setting may not be as glamorous as the futurist skyscrapers, alien planets, or alternate universes we see in movies and comics, but the adventure is just as exciting—and best of all, it’s real! Gain teaching insights, tips, and advice in an entertaining, superhero-inspired format Identify your teaching superpowers and weaknesses, and learn to lean on others when needed Explore the “universe” of teaching to understand where you fit in and how you can leave your legacy Equip yourself with the gadgets and gizmos you need to sharpen your skills and power up your classroom Current and future K-12 educators—pick up Teaching Is for Superheroes!, put on your cape, and start saving the world, one class at a time.

DABUNG GIRL and the Space Journey

DABUNG GIRL and the Space Journey
Author: Deeper Learning Innovations
Publisher:
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2019-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781695960633

This comic book is a must-read for every child. A new Indian superhero is here, and this time, it is a female superhero, Dabung Girl. She is a fearless hero, who has an elastic body as her superpower. However, unlike other superheroes, who come and save the day, she helps children find solutions on their own. The imagination, creativity, and fun continues throughout the comic. This comic book inspires children to find their inner superhero. In this issue, she uses her elastic body to protect children while imparting the importance of saving the environment and a lesson on gender equality!"I wanted my daughter to read things that inspire her to strive for success, that fuel her imagination and nurture her creative spirit! I am thankful to Dabung Girl for giving her a superhero she deserves!" - A MotherThis book content has been created by Harvard University and IIT Alumni. The content is designed in alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG and the 2030 Agenda). This comic might be of interest for people looking for: 21st-century education for children, Life Skills education, Children comic book, Girl / Female Superhero, Education through fun, Fearless Girl / Rebel Girls, Superhero from India, Teenage Superhero, Dabangg / Dabang Girl, Best comic for kids.

Antiracist Research on K-12 Education and Teacher Preparation

Antiracist Research on K-12 Education and Teacher Preparation
Author: Molly Zhou
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2024-02-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475872607

Antiracist Research on K-12 Education and Teacher Preparation: Policy Making, Pedagogy, Curriculum, and Practices provides current research on anti-racist education in teacher education and K-12 education. This book intends to engage teachers and educators in general to discuss diversity topics such as racism and how to react in the larger picture of teaching in K-12 and in higher education with a focus on teacher preparation.

Kevin Costner, America's Teacher

Kevin Costner, America's Teacher
Author: Edward Janak
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2022-02-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1793647879

Kevin Costner: America's Teacher examines the role of Costner in educational settings domestically and abroad. Costner’s career over the past 35 years has seen ups and downs: his movies grossed 2 billion dollars in ticket sales worldwide and he has he won/been nominated for several Academy Awards but he also experienced critical and box office failures. Through the films in his oeuvre, Costner has been teaching audiences around the world about the United States--its history, people and culture. Some viewers and scholars recognize this as positive, others as problematic. This book serves as a place for teachers and scholars to explore ways in which Costner may be tapped for research and teaching purposes at all levels of education. It is organized around three large themes: Costner’s baseball films and their connection to Americana; Costner’s films through the more critical lenses of gender and new western scholarship; and Costner’s teaching of teachers, the pedagogical possibilities of his work.