Comics and Norm-Critical Pedagogy

Robert Aman is a Senior Associate Professor in Education at Linköping University, Sweden. He primarily conducts research on ideology and the politics of representation in comics.Lars Wallner is an Associate Professor at Linköping University, Sweden, working in the field of Pedagogic Practices. His research explores the use of comics, games and popular fiction, mainly regarding education and social interaction.

• 1. Introduction: Comics, Norms, and Pedagogy 2. ‘The World Needs me!’: Comics as Norm-Critical Sex Education 3. The (Dis)comforts of Misogyny and the Monstrosity of Reproduction in Jonathan and Joshua Luna’s Girls 4. Defiance and Utopia: The Curational and Pedagogical Potential of a Queer Comics Exhibition 5. Transmasculine Girlhood in Graphic Memoir 6. Swedish Feminist Manga, Boys Love, and Comics Education 7. Criticizing the Norm in the Pampas. Inodoro Pereyra, el renegau and the Myth of the Argentine Cowboy 8. Norms of Comics Production: Swedish-speaking women cartoonists in Finnish comics history 9. Using Instagram-comics (in dialogue with walls) to educate about and challenge norms, discrimination and privileges – the cases of Jamaica and Honduras 10. Young Adult Comics and Paradigm Shift