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Delacruz, Elizabeth M. Thomas, Grant C. 2011-08-25T22:17:43Z 2011-08-25T22:17:43Z 2011-08-25T22:17:43Z 2011-08 For most of the 20th century, comics and graphic novels have not been considered worthy of inclusion in curricula by Educators. Comics have been blamed for juvenile delinquency and poor literacy skill acquisition (Wertham, 1954; McCloud, 1993, 2000). Yet recently educators have taken comics into the classroom instead of to the incinerator. Comics are now considered by educators to be useful for a variety of reasons (Jacobs, 2007). This paper will explain why narrative art is important for visual arts education. Then it will discuss how comics have been treated by educators in the 20th century. a brief discussion of how literacy educators now advocate inclusion of comics as a scaffold for traditional literacy education will follow. The paper concludes with an exploration of comics as an application of the theory of multiliteracies and gives practical implications for art educators. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2011-06-15T19:48:00Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Thomas_Grant.pdf: 98970798 bytes, checksum: b2552053a24dd4ea7a6d8d26b9ce9629 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-08-25T22:17:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Thomas_Grant.pdf: 98676011 bytes, checksum: 6e7375915435ab69a820cbe87ff05b47 (MD5) license.txt: 4062 bytes, checksum: 90cb1d0f0deeb0ba31f1b2f1ed23d8b4 (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/26183 en Copyright 2011 Grant Thomas comic books graphic novels mutliteracies Thinking inside the boxes: the importance of comics and graphic novels in visual arts education Art & Design 1526 Art Education 0169 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.A. MA:Art Education -UIUC 10KS0169MA