Comic Books Use in Social Studies Lesson: Texas History

Abstract

Çizgi romanlar sadece bir okuma metni değil aynı zamanda çeşitli dersler için faydalı bir eğitsel kaynaktır. Buna dayalı olarak çalışmanın amacı çizgi roman kullanımının ortaokul öğrencilerinin sosyal bilgiler dersindeki başarı ve motivasyonlarını incelemektir. Yarı-deneysel araştırma modelinin kullanıldığı çalışmada 19 öğrenci deney grubunda, 20 öğrenci ise kontrol grubunda yer almıştır. Veriler başarı testi ve motivasyon ölçeği kullanılarak toplanmıştır. 2015-2016 yılı eğitim döneminde yapılan çalışma üç hafta sürmüştür. Elde edilen bulgulardan çıkan sonuçlara göre çizgi romanların kullanıldığı grup, geleneksel yaklaşım ile öğretim yapılan gruba göre daha yüksek başarı elde etmiş ve motivasyonlarının daha çok arttığı belirlenmiştir.

Pre-service Social Studies Teachers' Opinions on Using Comic Books in Social Studies Teaching

“…The pre-service teachers preferred preparing comic books in subjects connected with the social studies, and especially in history. This might be due to the strong link between the subjects of history and actual life, and the ease of transferring historical events from different sources into a scenario (Ilhan and Oruç, 2019). In addition, currently available comic books focused on history and the historical content of the exercise they performed for this study might have influenced the opinions of the pre-service teachers.…”

“…The significant increase in the number of comic book publications both in Turkey and in the World and the comic book publications of lives of historical figures intended for children demonstrate that the interest in comic books is also present in the education (Cantek, 2014). According to multiple studies in different disciplines, the comic books are found to have positive effects on the student achievement and attitude towards classes (Kılıçkaya and Krajka, 2012;Topkaya and Simşek, 2015;Ilhan, 2016) on creative thinking (Orçan and Kandil, 2016) on critical thinking (Krusemark, 2016) and on increased quality of grammar use and sentences (Kılıçkaya and Krajka, 2012). Social studies can be described as a course, which utilizes the information and methods it takes from social sciences (history, geography, archeology, law etc.)…”

“…The studies on using comic books in classes as teaching materials also attest to this observation. Various studies in different disciplines found that comic books have positive effects on students' success and attitudes towards the class (Kılıçkaya and Krajka, 2012;Ilhan, 2016;Topkaya, 2016) creative thinking (Orçan and Kandil, 2016) critical thinking (Krusemark, 2016) and the quality of sentences (Kılıçkaya and Krajka, 2012). There is no study focusing on the opinions of prospective teachers on comics prepared by themselves.…”

“…Due to these developments, it is inevitable that the technology supported materials prepared by teachers and students are going to be used in schools in the near future. Additionally, current research in education indicates that use of comic books in social studies education enhances motivation and academic achievement of students (Ilhan and Oruç, 2019;Unal and Demirkaya, 2019). For this reason, teachers, who play important roles in organizing the teaching environment, are required to gain experience in this subject both in their teaching career and in their vocational life.…”

“…A review of the studies focusing on comic books' use as teaching materials (Topkaya and Simşek, 2015;Ilhan, 2016;Orçan and Kandil, 2016;Topkaya, 2016) shows that the research participants of these studies usually comprised of secondary school and high school students. Furthermore, in these studies, the comic book panels that were prepared according to the research themes by the researchers who carried out the studies themselves or the published and commercially available comic books were used as teaching materials.…”