Inorganic Chemistry: Vibranium and Marvel Studios’<i>Black Panther</i>

Collins, Sibrina N.

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“…A narrative arc or structure (see Figure ) illustrates an example of a Vb content story that can potentially be incorporated in a general chemistry course for first-year students. Inspired by a stoichiometry content story developed by Winston and vibranium pedagogy developed by Collins and Appleby, , this content story begins with the key questionwhere does Vb fit on the periodic table? This illustration should be provided to the students for them to understand the connections between content beginning with the structure of atoms and the Bohr model.…”

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Storytelling as Pedagogy: The Power of Chemistry Stories as a Tool for Classroom Engagement

2023

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Storytelling in chemistry as a pedagogical tool provides an alternative learning format for students to discover more about the people behind STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) innovations that impact our society. However, there is a dearth in the literature on what influence storytelling pedagogy could have on STEM classroom. Our study examines the influence of storytelling as a pedagogical tool on students' understanding of the importance of JDEI (Justice, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) in a social seminar course with the theme "Equity and History of Science." Our storytelling study has a small sample size with 13 students pursuing STEM majors. We describe the impact of screening four narrative films celebrating the significant contributions of chemists Professor

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Storytelling as Pedagogy: The Power of Chemistry Stories as a Tool for Classroom Engagement

2023

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“…The two texts I discuss in this article -the blockbuster Marvel film Black Panther (Coogler 2018) and Colour Me Melanin, an adult colouring book with pictures accompanying poetry (Kekana 2019) -are definitely part of popular culture. Black Panther grossed more than USD 1.3 billion, making it the highest grossing superhero film of all time (Mohdin 2018).…”

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Give the Black Girl the Remote: De-colonising and Depatriarchalising Knowledge and Art in Black Panther and Colour Me Melanin

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2023

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This article explores two texts set in Africa to determine to what extent they exhibit decolonial and anti-patriarchal impulses. They are Ryan Coogler's 2018 film, Black Panther, and the adult colouring book, Colour Me Melanin (Kekana 2019), which features 27 portraits of African women paired with 27 poems inspiring pride in women's African heritage. Black Panther features a Black superhero: the hypermasculine T'Challa, although its technological genius is not T'Challa (the eponymous Black Panther), but his sister Shuri, disparaged by traditionalists in Wakanda as 'a child'. Despite her irreverent and iconoclastic approach to tradition, sixteen-year-old Shuri is 'the smartest person in the world, smarter than Tony Stark [Iron Man]' (Malik 2023). Despite these promising features, the film's portrayal of Shuri - a Black girl nerd who is manifestly her brother's equal in the arts of war and technology - stops short of a complete depatriarchalisation of the norm that reserves superhero status for men. Further, Black Panther contains a number of concerning representations that reinforce, rather than disrupting, the colonial view of Africa. Colour Me Melanin may be called speculative fiction in that it points to a future that is yet to come as it shifts the locus of women's beauty away from whiteness and places it firmly in the domain of Black African women's embodiment. All the same, some aspects of this multimodal text signal its affinity for colonial taxonomies and ways of thinking about ethnicity.

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The importance of storytelling in chemical education

Collins

2020

Nat. Chem.

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Inorganic Chemistry: Vibranium and Marvel Studios’Black Panther

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

Storytelling as Pedagogy: The Power of Chemistry Stories as a Tool for Classroom Engagement

Storytelling as Pedagogy: The Power of Chemistry Stories as a Tool for Classroom Engagement

Give the Black Girl the Remote: De-colonising and Depatriarchalising Knowledge and Art in Black Panther and Colour Me Melanin

The importance of storytelling in chemical education

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