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Teacher characters in comics are almost as ubiquitous as flowing capes and tights \u2014 but they\u2019re often relegated to the background of stories about the lives of students, like a piece of furniture or a potted plant.<\/p>\n

As a familiar example,\u00a0the teachers in Peanuts<\/em> never appear in the panels but are only implied as distant voices<\/a>, while even Snoopy is given\u00a0the odd thought bubble<\/a>. Teachers in comics therefore rarely have much of an inner world.<\/p>\n

Even if certain figures \u2014 such as\u00a0Ms. Grundy<\/a>\u00a0of Riverdale High\u00a0in the Archie<\/em> comics<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 are immediately recognizable, you would be forgiven for thinking she has no life outside of her job. Only rarely do readers see Ms. Grundy doing something out of the ordinary, such as\u00a0taking a skydiving class on the weekend<\/a>\u00a0or preparing\u00a0a lecture for her students on women\u2019s rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As a professor who educates teachers-to-be about learning to build a sustainable teaching life, both in and out of the classroom, and a researcher who has examined teachers in comics, I read comics set in school with an inquiring eye about what readers are led to<\/p>\n

While as noted, some comics artists have rendered teachers as background filler, that\u2019s not always the case. Through examining some depictions of teachers in comics, we can gain insight into real-life challenges of teachers related to negotiating their identities and feelings in the classroom.<\/p>\n

Black Lightning \/ Mr. Pierce<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Black Lightning<\/a>, a member of the DC superhero team,\u00a0The Outsiders<\/a>, distinguishes himself by carrying on a day job as an English teacher\u00a0simultaneous to his work as a costumed hero<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the classroom, as Mr. Pierce, he is committed to making a difference in his students\u2019 lives, despite the obstacles they may face: \u201cI came here to teach,\u201d he once exclaimed, \u201cand\u00a0I can do that whether I\u2019m in a classroom or a locker room \u2014 or out on the street<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

This double life, however, takes its toll, and leaves Pierce with hardly a moment to rest. In one story, after spending the night out as Black Lightning, he remarks, visibly exhausted: \u201cSchoolteacher Jefferson Pierce still has some English papers to grade before morning<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

For such characters, the stress of a double life reveals the impediments that teachers may encounter when trying to maintain out-of-school interests and identities. To greater or lesser degress, these may be at odds with mainstream western cultural expectations and cultural myths about teachers \u2014 such as the view that teachers are\u00a0rugged individualists and self-made experts<\/a>, as noted by education researcher Deborah P. Britzman.<\/p>\n

Johnny Thunder \/ Mr. Tane<\/strong><\/h4>\n

First appearing in 1940s western comics, much of cowboy superhero\u00a0Johnny Thunder\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0story line involves a struggle between his desire to enact vengeance and justice at gunpoint, and his wish to teach children about civic duty in the classroom as Mr. John Tane.<\/p>\n

The comics\u2019 narrating voice describes this confusion of identities as a \u201cdual post as fighter with books and bullets for justice\u201d in a 1951 issue of\u00a0All American Western<\/em>\u00a0(Issue 120). Tane\u2019s father is also the local sheriff, and\u00a0often humiliates his son for working as a teacher<\/a>: \u201cTeachin\u2019s for womenfolk!\u201d he says, \u201cAn fightin\u2019 for justice a man\u2019s job<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Education researchers Shannon D. M. Moore and Melanie D. Janzen have examined how campaigns by governments that criticize teachers or the teaching profession, and seek to justify underfunding education, rely on\u00a0gendered projections that suggest patriarchal surveillance over teaching devalued as \u201cwomen\u2019s work.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Though he has his suspicions, Sheriff Tane never does discover his son\u2019s secret identity, nor does he come around to respect his work in the classroom, a fact that leads his son to feel understandably confused about who he actually is.<\/p>\n

For example, in one image from\u00a0All-American Western<\/em>, violent reverberations of Tane\u2019s face, rendered by multiplying its outline more than 15 times, indicate the degree to which his own identity lacks coherence. Indeed, after reading through every single issue of this character\u2019s run, I\u2019m left unsure about whether to consider Johnny Thunder or Mr. Tane as the character\u2019s true identity.<\/p>\n

The split identity struggles of Black Lightning and Johnny Thunder resonate with themes that education scholars\u00a0Dennis Sumara and Rebecca Luce-Kapler<\/a>\u00a0have noticed in beginning teachers, who often join the profession experiencing a sense of \u201cdissonance between their pre-teaching lives and their lives as experienced teachers.\u201d Unsurprisingly, they find, this is especially true for teachers from marginalized groups,\u00a0including racialized teachers, immigrant teachers and gay and lesbian teachers<\/a>. (Other research notes\u00a0LGBTQ+ teachers struggle to find safe space in schools to be themselves<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Just as Pierce has trouble fitting both his lives into the larger frame of \u201cteacher,\u201d and we aren\u2019t sure who Tane really is, so may novice teachers be forced to negotiate between what Sumara and Luce-Kapler name as \u201cconflicting remembered, lived and projected senses of identity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barbie<\/h4>\n

A surprising example of a character able to balance her life in and out of the classroom is Barbie. (Yes, that Barbie!)\u00a0In a 1990s storyline<\/a>, Barbie decides to pursue a career as a teacher, even though she is already well-known as a model.<\/p>\n

Her sentiments may be a little saccharine and na\u00efve \u2014 \u201cI hope I\u2019ll be a good teacher,\u201d she thinks to herself, \u201cand that the students learn a lot from me.\u201d Yet, it\u2019s also refreshing to see her able to express such inner thoughts, and to admit emotional concerns as an important component of who she is as a teacher.<\/p>\n

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Already well-known as a model, Barbie also pursues a teaching career. (‘Barbie Fashion’ Issue 23, 1992\/Marvel Comics)<\/p><\/div>\n

As education scholar Debbie Sonu and colleagues<\/a>\u00a0indicate, it is only by admitting \u201cthe elusive qualities of emotional life\u201d into the classroom that teachers may also grapple with challenging topics, like social justice and social inequity, as \u201cpart and parcel of education, and not the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n

If teachers\u00a0are able to encounter themselves as emotional beings<\/a>, they will be more readily able\u00a0to encourage such moves among their students as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Comics help imagine, examine unconscious life<\/strong><\/h4>\n

In my own work with those who are learning to teach<\/a>, I have explored making comics with students to allow them to represent and read their own dreams of life in the classroom. Doing this is one means of side-stepping what could otherwise entail imposing a predictable and prescriptive script of expected outcomes and methods in teacher education.<\/p>\n

Such imagining can help ensure new teachers\u2019 versions of teaching may be grounded in their broader lives and identities, and that their knowledge and personal appropriation of professional methods don\u2019t work to render such identities\u00a0invisible and silent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since comics seem to offer a valuable lens into the\u00a0social unconscious<\/a>\u00a0of educational life<\/a>, perhaps counter-intuitively, we should also learn to trust\u00a0what comics imply<\/a>\u00a0about the everyday life of teaching and learning.<\/p>\n

Author Bio:<\/strong> David Lewkowich is Associate Professor, Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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