An Effective Material in Disaster Education: Educational Comics

Abstract

It is seen that disasters, which are expressed as an important threat for the world, are growing day by day and affecting wider geographies. Because of this situation, an effective disaster education should be given to individuals about what to do before and after the disaster. In this research, it was investigated what kind of perspective social studies teachers have on disaster education, which will be given through educational comics. The research was carried out on 17 social studies teachers working in public secondary schools in Samsun city center in the 2022-2023 academic year. The study was conducted by considering the case study technique, which is one of the qualitative research methods. Social studies teachers participating in the research answered the questions posed to them through the interview forum, and the answers given by the teachers to the questions were analyzed by considering the content analysis technique. As a result of the findings obtained in the research, the following conclusions were reached: educational comics embody the theoretical information on the subject, allow the readers to give the topics of disasters in an entertaining way, increase the motivation for learning the theoretical information, raise the sense of curiosity towards the subjects to the highest level and eliminate the misconceptions about the subject. has been reached.