DIGITAL COMIC OF 89 MIGRATION OF TURKS: “THE BEHINDS”

Abstract

Turkey is located in a geography where migration movements are intense. In this context, migration education is of great importance in terms of conveying the phenomenon of migration to students in political, social, cultural and economic aspects and expressing its causes and consequences. It is very important to use materials that can attract the attention of school age groups instead of using traditional approaches in the narrative of critical issues such as migration. For this reason, besides providing a multi-learning environment by appealing to different senses, the materials are important auxiliary resources in terms of examining the concept of migration with these aspects. One of these important materials is educational comics. Comics, which are expressed as the ninth greatest art of the world; These are important materials in terms of using the text with the visuals, drawing attention with its drawings, colors and design, and giving the reader the opportunity to make more comments and empathize. Comics are shown as interesting resources in the transfer of different subjects in the educational environment. For this purpose; An educational comic book was designed in order to convey a social issue such as migration with different aspects and to try to gain the desired values and attitudes in this regard. The subject of the comic; It includes the forced migration of Turks from Bulgaria to Turkey in 1989. While creating the scenario of the comic, 5 people who had migrated at that time were interviewed and the memories of the people were tried to be used in the creation of the comic. The comic book material, designed in digital environment with the Web 2.0 tool called Pixton, consists of 94 frames. It is aimed that the prepared comic book material will contribute to migration teaching studies and it is expected that the comic will raise awareness about both the phenomenon of migration and what happened in the 1989 migration.