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Rolf Laven's research activity in the refugee camps of the Polisario takes place against the backdrop of the cultural form of the predominantly Muslim Saharawis, which is characterized by textual literacy. The realization of pictorial representations as a means of communication presents a new educational and learning field for these children and their teachers. The focus lies on the role of childlike image-based forms of expression in the process of world-and selfempowerment.The resulting picture worlds illustrate worldviews from the child perspective; the daily experienced as well as the imagined, have been imprinted.Images, presentation/representation and their adoption as well as meta-levels are effective for all interacters at the interface of teaching-learning processes on both sides. Methods were participating observation, qualitative empirical study, and phenomenological analysis. The children's drawings manifest the status of independent documents; complexity and focus do not remain referring exclusively on the narrative content.

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The Graphic Novel as a development of the last decades and nowadays an independent art form is presented in the context of workshop series within its educational potentials. Graphic story telling workshop series as methology exemplifies us an alternative form of communication beyond textual literacy. This took place within the framework of teacher training workshops in the Polisario refugee camps in Algeria. With the possibilities of the graphic novels, contents from the school environment and the everyday life of the participants were developed by means of art education, in the sense of a reflection of the own work event/ reference, for oneself and others. Drawings and personal stories from everyday life were developed in detail in the form of successive pictures and pictorial elements, sometimes including writing. In a non-verbal and playful way, the reality of life should come to face.   In particular, one's own experiential space should be experienced as a source of creativity - personal, original, self-referential should be appreciated and valued. Unconventional forms of communication were generated and established as mutually effective educational methods.