Digital Comics
Funding Programme
KA220-SCH - Cooperation partnerships in school education
Duration
01/12/2023 - 31/05/2026
Budget
400 000 €
Countries
🇹🇷Turkey 🇩🇪German 🇺🇦Ukraine 🇸🇪Sweden
Project Number
2023-1-TR01-KA220-SCH-000166103
Digital Comics of Migration
This project aims to raise respect and social cohesion for those who were displaced because of war. The social and ethics of this project moves me, as my expertise involves history education. I have read thousands of books, know millions of stories of displaced people; taught social studies teachers about wars and displacement. The project deals with the effects of two major humanitarian crises that have occurred in the world in recent years, and aims to raise awareness by developing an alternative instructional design for the phenomenon of migration in education.
In addition, this project introduces an innovative instructional design for social studies education: digital comics. Most schools and teachers are unaware of comics as an educational tool and digital tools. This project introduces both comics and digital comics to teachers and students, as and art and digital skill. The project aims to produce completely original and concrete outputs that can be translated into different languages and used by educators in different countries will be an important resource for future research.
The overall value of the project lies its intersection of war, migrants, comics and digital skills. Comics is entertaining for
children, young and adults to read, and it will be used for both educational (social studies education, digital skills) and social (social cohesion) aims. Previous examples of comics on war such as “Fax from Sarajevo”, “Aivali: A Story of Greeks and Turks in 1922” have resulted in fundamental achievements. They were found significant for identity and migration (Ghiso & Low, 2013; Kugler, 2018; http://myriadeditions.com/).It will bring children of migrants and citizens together.
In case the necessary funding is provided, the supporting response of European education to war in Ukraine and Syria will be understood through family stories, the required equipment and training will be provided to train teachers and support school innovators in Poland and Turkey for an innovative and entertaining Web2.0 tool of comics, a positive process for students of war will be created to ensure that respect and social cohesion is provided in schools. Key competences such as respect, social cohesion, digital skills and social studies education will be improved through digital comics and migration stories.
The project’s primary goal is to use the experiences of immigrant families to support the reaction of European education and training institutions to the wars in Syria and Ukraine. War-related migration is classified as compulsory movement and has the worst effects on a person’s ability to adjust to a new environment, settle in, and access the educational system.
The project will provide a setting and an opportunity for learning the experiences of people who have been forcibly removed from their viewpoints. The family histories will give students and teachers rich information and a perspective that is oriented toward people. Students will be interested in digital comics based on family stories because it is a novel and intriguing form of literature for them to read. The learning will be more enjoyable and lasting for kids as it targets various sensors,
Partners
- YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
- Institute for Roma and Minorities Inclusion
- Nordic Horizon Institute AB
- INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION KINGDANYLO UNIVERSITY
- Istanbul 29 Mayis Universitesi