‘Pathetic Geek Stories’: A Practical Approach to Introducing a Challenging Graphic Narrative

Abstract

This article describes a critical-creative approach to the graphic memoir Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (2007) that was shared in a Norwegian teacher education context as an aesthetic learning process that can contextualize student teachers’ own experiences and generate a sense of community.

Keywords

• graphic novels
• alison bechdel
• teacher education
• interpretative community
• reflection