COD 2025 - D1110

Webinar - Weird creature(s)?: using Shaun Tan's work in lower secondary Language and Literature classes

This workshop is designed for lower secondary Language and Literature teachers, educators, and librarians interested in using Shaun Tan's work to explore and develop skills in visual storytelling, meaning creation through juxtaposition of visual and written texts, speculative fiction, and themes of identity, belonging, and otherness in the classroom

2 sessions, start: 10-Sep

Course detail

Year: 2025
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Mr. Luciano Camio
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 30000.00
Non affiliate
ARS 30000.00

Sessions


Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 10 September 2025 06:00 pm 07:30 pm
2 24 September 2025 06:00 pm 07:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Luciano Camio

Luciano Camio has been an educator for the last thirty years. Graduate teacher (INCASUP) and Literary Translator (IES en Lenguas Vivas "Juan R. Fernández"), Lic. in Educational Management (CAECE), took all seminars towards his Master's in Contemporary Literatures in English (UNCuyo). Academic presentations in conferences in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Colombia, England, and the US.
He has taught English Language, Literatures in English, World History and Intercultural Studies at lower secondary and IGCSE and AS/AL classes, and was Head of Secondary School at Academia Argüello, Córdoba. He runs bilingual reading workshops, professional development workshops, and is an external pedagogical consultant for bilingual schools.
This workshop is designed for lower secondary Language and Literature teachers, educators, and librarians interested in using Shaun Tan's work to explore and develop skills in visual storytelling, meaning creation through juxtaposition of visual and written texts, speculative fiction, and themes of identity, belonging, and otherness in the classroom
Examine how Shaun Tan uses "weird creatures" to explore themes of alienation, migration, and identity.
Analyze the relationship between text and image in Tan's storytelling.
Develop strategies for integrating Tan’s work into lower secondary Language and Literature curricula.
Encourage creative and critical responses to multimodal narratives.
Introduction to Shaun Tan’s artistic and narrative style.
Exploring The Arrival and Tales from the Inner City: themes of displacement and belonging.
The function of "weird creatures" as metaphors for personal and social transformation.
Understanding how Tan's visual style shapes meaning.
Analyzing narrative techniques in wordless and hybrid texts.
Discussion on how visual storytelling can engage reluctant readers.
Strategies for using Tan's books in Language and Literature lessons.
Designing activities that encourage students to analyze and create their own hybrid texts through textual intervention(s).
Close reading of selected visual and written texts.
Group discussions on visual and textual storytelling.
Hands-on creative exercises incorporating writing and visual storytelling.
Practical strategies for lesson planning and classroom application.
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