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Wallner, L. & Aman, R. (2024). Negotiating Empathy and Otherness in a Comic Narrative: Upper Secondary Students Reading Report from Ukraine. In: : . Paper presented at NERA Conference 2024: Adventures of Education: Desires, Encounters and Differences.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Negotiating Empathy and Otherness in a Comic Narrative: Upper Secondary Students Reading Report from Ukraine
2024 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Research topic/aim

Ambitions to promote empathy has been discussed from different angles and contexts, and empathy is generally seen to be fostered within the realm of education, achieved through a variety of materials. Researchers have analyzed the ways in which empathy can be enhanced through art (Phillips, 2003), literature (Rydén Gramner, 2022), and photography (Lorenz, 2011). This article sets to contribute to this research by including comics; a medium that has been granted sparse academic attention in education (see Wallner & Eriksson Barajas, 2020).

Theoretical framework

Identity construction can be seen as establishing a border between the self and the other by articulating who we are not; while fiction enables us to see ourselves through others (Felski, 2008). Therefore, the purpose of this article is to explore how students can use a comic text in upper secondary school to construct empathy towards ‘the other’.

Methodological design

This article builds on data from five Swedish upper secondary classes in Year 10 (16 years old), with 91 students and 4 teachers. The students read a comic story in Swedish called “Report from Ukraine”, a freely accessible online comic from Swedish publisher Galago. Students read the comic and discussed it in small groups during a one-hour lesson. Some group discussions lasted only about 15 minutes, while others talked for almost the whole hour. Video and audio were recorded, resulting in a total of 13 hours and 18 minutes of data. This was then analyzed using thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006), focusing on students’ verbal and non-verbal actions, in order to explore how students construct empathy. The category of ‘them and us’ turned out to be the most common (n=38 out of 218), wherein students compared, e.g., Swedes and Ukrainians.

Expected conclusions/findings

The results can be summarized through three themes: 1) Portrayal of the other, wherein students construct otherness as being both similar and different to themselves, and how imagery is used to construct this. 2) Knowledge , how students’ knowledge about the situation in Ukraine, the invasion, etc. differs, and how this is important for their (empathic) reading of the story. 3) Fear and other emotions, containing both students’ emotional narratives about the war, as well as perceived

emotions interpreted through the comic characters.

Relevance to Nordic educational research

We consider this to be indicative of how comics, as multimodal narratives, can engage students in discussions on empathy, relating current global events and issues of ethnicity and otherness to their personal experiences and individual viewpoints.

References:

Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology 3(2), 77-101. https://doi.org/10.1191/1478088706qp063oa

Felski, R. (2008). Uses of Literature. Blackwell Publishing.

Lorenz, L. S. (2011). A way into empathy: A ‘case’of photo-elicitation in illness research. Health 15 (3), 259-275. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459310397976

Phillips, L. C. (2003). Nurturing empathy. Art Education 56 (4), 45-53. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043125.2003.11653509

Rydén Gramner, A. (2022). Cold Heart, Warm Heart: On fiction, interaction, and emotion in medical education [Doctoral dissertation]. Linköping University.

Wallner, L., & Eriksson Barajas, K. (2020). Using Comics and Graphic Novels in K-9 Education: An Integrative Literature Review. Studies in Comics 11(1), 37-54. https://doi.org/10.1386/stic_00014_1

National Category
Pedagogical Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-201410 (URN)
Conference
NERA Conference 2024: Adventures of Education: Desires, Encounters and Differences
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2021-05492
Available from: 2024-03-08 Created: 2024-03-08 Last updated: 2024-03-13Bibliographically approved
Aman, R. (2023). Interculturality, interculturalidad, and the colonial difference. In: P. Holmes & J. Corbett (Ed.), Critical Intercultural Pedagogy for Difficult Times: Conflict, Crisis, and Creativity (pp. 190-206). New York: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Interculturality, interculturalidad, and the colonial difference
2023 (English)In: Critical Intercultural Pedagogy for Difficult Times: Conflict, Crisis, and Creativity / [ed] P. Holmes & J. Corbett, New York: Routledge, 2023, p. 190-206Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
New York: Routledge, 2023
National Category
Cultural Studies Pedagogy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-188502 (URN)9780367714123 (ISBN)9781003150756 (ISBN)
Available from: 2022-09-14 Created: 2022-09-14 Last updated: 2022-11-11Bibliographically approved
Aman, R. (2023). Socialist Swedish Comics: Anticapitalism, International Solidarity and Whiteness in Johan Vilde and The Phantom. In: Harriet Earle & Martin Lund (Ed.), Identity and History in Non-Anglophone Comics : (pp. 109-128). London: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Socialist Swedish Comics: Anticapitalism, International Solidarity and Whiteness in Johan Vilde and The Phantom
2023 (English)In: Identity and History in Non-Anglophone Comics / [ed] Harriet Earle & Martin Lund, London: Routledge, 2023, p. 109-128Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Routledge, 2023
Keywords
socialism phantom sweden johan vilde
National Category
Humanities and the Arts History Cultural Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-192794 (URN)9781032480879 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-03-31 Created: 2023-03-31 Last updated: 2023-08-15Bibliographically approved
Aman, R. & Dahlstedt, M. (2023). Strangers Everywhere?: Home and unhomeliness in newly arrived pupils’ narratives in language learning. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 31(4), 725-739
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Strangers Everywhere?: Home and unhomeliness in newly arrived pupils’ narratives in language learning
2023 (English)In: Pedagogy, Culture & Society, ISSN 1468-1366, E-ISSN 1747-5104, Vol. 31, no 4, p. 725-739Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article scrutinises the ways in which pupils who have experienced transnational migration construct ‘home’ and the unmaking of ‘home’. Researchers have argued that migrants’ perspectives on belonging are seldom granted scholarly attention. Here, we seek to redress this oversight by inquiring about the ways in which newly arrived migrants define their (un)homeliness in Sweden in the context of astate-sponsored introductory language programme. The focus is on how these pupils themselves define the notion of home, their sense of belonging, and what they envision as necessary to achieve in order to become part of the national community. What emerges in these stories is aconstant negotiation to fill the idea of ‘home’ with content. These negotiations take place in apresent, but always in relation to both apast and an imagined future– in which homeliness appears in different ways, with different meanings.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2023
Keywords
homeliness, language learning, people's home, refugees
National Category
Pedagogy International Migration and Ethnic Relations
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-178921 (URN)10.1080/14681366.2021.1948910 (DOI)001011166200006 ()2-s2.0-85109616533 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2021-09-06 Created: 2021-09-06 Last updated: 2023-08-30Bibliographically approved
Löfgren, H. & Aman, R. (2022). A double pressure to perform?: Pupils talk about grades and parents in a multicultural school setting in Sweden. Education Inquiry, 13(1), 86-103
Open this publication in new window or tab >>A double pressure to perform?: Pupils talk about grades and parents in a multicultural school setting in Sweden
2022 (English)In: Education Inquiry, E-ISSN 2000-4508, Vol. 13, no 1, p. 86-103Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The aim is to contribute knowledge about the ways in which Swedish pupils with a migrant background speak about school performances and their first experiences of being graded. The results describe pupils and parents as positioned as being lower down in a top-down relationship vis-à-vis school. The separation between home and school is best described as robust. Some pupils want and ask for a better school-home relationship because they think it would harmonise the relationship with their parents and facilitate their school work. The main conclusion is that pupils find themselves in a vulnerable position between schools’/tea- chers’ demands and parents’ aspirations for them.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2022
Keywords
Pupils’ experiences; grades; multicultural setting; home- school relationships
National Category
Educational Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-170897 (URN)10.1080/20004508.2020.1831287 (DOI)000741149900005 ()2-s2.0-85093943416 (Scopus ID)
Note

Funding: Swedish Research CouncilSwedish Research CouncilEuropean Commission [721-2013-1668]

Available from: 2020-10-29 Created: 2020-10-29 Last updated: 2022-10-03Bibliographically approved
Aman, R. & Wallner, L. (2022). Introduction: Teaching with Comics: Empirical, Analytical, and Professional Experiences. In: Aman, Robert & Wallner, Lars (Ed.), Teaching with Comics: Empirical, Analytical and Professional Experiences (pp. 1-13). Palgrave Macmillan
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Introduction: Teaching with Comics: Empirical, Analytical, and Professional Experiences
2022 (English)In: Teaching with Comics: Empirical, Analytical and Professional Experiences / [ed] Aman, Robert & Wallner, Lars, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, p. 1-13Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

In this introduction, the editors outline the ideas of using comics in education, as well as make a short introduction of the different chapters included here. As comics have developed throughout the twentieth century, so have the methods of studying them and using them for educational practice. Thus, the scholarly focus of studying comics and their readers has often veered in different directions and taken different approaches, and the collection aims to gather some of these approaches—whether within the literary, social, and educational sciences. In this way, the collection demonstrates the breadth of comics research conducted across the globe, as well as the varied practices of using comics in the classroom for different purposes.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
Keywords
teaching, school, education, comics, classroom
National Category
Pedagogy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-188092 (URN)10.1007/978-3-031-05194-4_1 (DOI)978-3-031-05193-7 (ISBN)978-3-031-05194-4 (ISBN)
Available from: 2022-09-05 Created: 2022-09-05 Last updated: 2022-09-05
Aman, R. (2022). Johan Vilde avslöjade ett mörkt östgötsk förflutet. Östgöta Correspondenten (2022-05-18), pp. 10-12
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Johan Vilde avslöjade ett mörkt östgötsk förflutet
2022 (Swedish)In: Östgöta Correspondenten, ISSN 1104-0394, no 2022-05-18, p. 10-12Article in journal, News item (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Abstract [sv]

Robert Aman skriver om ett svenskserietidningsäventyr som avslöjande rutade in ett mörkt kapitel i svensk och östgötsk historia.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Linköping, Sweden: Mediehuset Corren, 2022
National Category
History and Archaeology Arts Languages and Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-185132 (URN)
Available from: 2022-05-18 Created: 2022-05-18 Last updated: 2022-06-08Bibliographically approved
Aman, R. (2022). När Fantomen blev svensk: vänsterns världsbild i trikå. Göteborg: Daidalos
Open this publication in new window or tab >>När Fantomen blev svensk: vänsterns världsbild i trikå
2022 (Swedish)Book (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

Hur kan en amerikansk superhjälte i blå trikåer, som har anklagats för både rasism och sexism, bli en svensk nationalhjälte?

Seriefiguren Fantomen dyker upp i svensk press redan i början på 1940-talet, men det är först på 1970-talet, ett decennium när en kraftig vänstervåg sköljer över Sverige, som Fantomen på allvar blir ”svensk”. Tidningen får då ett svenskt redaktionsråd, ”Team Fantomen”, som låter Fantomen ägna sig åt allt från kolonial befrielsekamp till jämställdhet och till att öppna ett Konsum i djungeln. Och mitt i alltihop är Fantomen förstås en närvarande pappa, fattas bara.

Fantomen-gestalten förkroppsligar kort sagt ambitionen bakom svensk utrikespolitik och det faller uppenbarligen både gamla och unga läsare i smaken. Under 70-talet är det faktiskt fler som läser om hans kamp mot sociala orättvisor än som läser Expressen. I sin bok undersöker Robert Aman – kulturskribent, serieforskare och biträdande professor i pedagogik vid Linköpings universitet – hur detta var möjligt och hur seriens dialog med det omgivande samhället mer konkret såg ut.

Hans bok låter oss möta både superhjälten i trikåer och ett Sverige i en politisk och social brytningstid.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Göteborg: Daidalos, 2022. p. 292
National Category
History and Archaeology Political Science Languages and Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-184790 (URN)9789171736505 (ISBN)9789171736659 (ISBN)
Available from: 2022-05-05 Created: 2022-05-05 Last updated: 2023-01-20Bibliographically approved
Aman, R. (2022). Ridiculous Empire: Satire and European Colonialism in the Comics of Olivier Schrauwen. European comic art, 15(2), 80-106
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Ridiculous Empire: Satire and European Colonialism in the Comics of Olivier Schrauwen
2022 (English)In: European comic art, ISSN 1754-3797, E-ISSN 1754-3800, Vol. 15, no 2, p. 80-106Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article analyses the works of Olivier Schrauwen with a particular focus on his comic Arsène Schrauwen, which plays out in the colonial context of the Congo. It argues that Schrauwen’s comics exploit the formal qualities of the colonial adventure genre that is frequent in traditional European comics as a way of subverting and satirising them. It further argues that through a constant reliance on meta-references to other works and tropes recognisable from adventure tales, in combination with the adoption of a strict colonialist world view, Schrauwen humorously ridicules the asymmetrical binaries between coloniser and colonised.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
BERGHAHN JOURNALS, 2022
Keywords
colonialism; empire; humour; post-colonialism; satire; Schrauwen
National Category
History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-190043 (URN)10.3167/eca.2022.150205 (DOI)000975853300005 ()
Available from: 2022-11-18 Created: 2022-11-18 Last updated: 2024-03-01Bibliographically approved
Aman, R. (2022). Semi-naked revolutionary: native Americans, colourblind anti-racism and the Pillaging of Latin America in Tumac. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 14(2), 208-232
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Semi-naked revolutionary: native Americans, colourblind anti-racism and the Pillaging of Latin America in Tumac
2022 (English)In: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, ISSN 2150-4857, E-ISSN 2150-4865, Vol. 14, no 2, p. 208-232Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The eponymous protagonist of Tumac, a comic book published monthly in Sweden between 1978 and 1980, is a young indigenous boy who in contemporary times becomes emperor of a hidden Inca empire. After attempting to create a society where all social hierarchies have ceased to exist, Tumac leaves this hidden location in the jungle to help bring about a revolution in Latin America. This essay argues that Tumac is a prime example of what can be classified in broad terms as a wave of international solidarity in Sweden infused with New Left politics. During this period, colourblindness was elevated to a governing norm and antiracist vision, symbolised here by an indigenous hero fighting for social justice in a part of the world that increasingly took centre stage in the national political debate. In short, Tumac is a leading example of how Sweden wanted to be seen and saw others.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2022
Keywords
International solidarity marxism latin america antiracism indigenous struggles
National Category
Specific Literatures History Educational Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-183968 (URN)10.1080/21504857.2022.2052919 (DOI)
Available from: 2022-03-30 Created: 2022-03-30 Last updated: 2023-07-06Bibliographically approved
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