ahepburn MDES PRES1 User Its only a Comic

Points of Enquiry 1

Prepared: Andrew Hepburn It’s only a comic …?

The User …Marketplace?

The User; International Centre for Peace Studies

International School for Peace Studies (ISPS)Maydown Ebrington Group The Ebrington CentreGlendermott RoadLondonderry BT47 6BG

**cross community

education

programmes

**schools links programmes

**adult education programme.

The User; Young People!

**Loyalist Background

**Socio – Economic Profile

**Attitude to Reading /

History … Community????

Stereotypes!!


**Republican Background

**Socio – Economic Profile

**Attitude to Reading /

History … Community????

Stereotypes!!

**Graphic Communication

**segmented blocks in order

to maintain interest …

Cognitive learning theory!

**Effective … Affective !!!


Stereotypes!!X

**Reading

Skills

The User; Education …

**Citizenship

**Community

…

This is a fun way of getting into the stories … The illustrations in these books are an easy way of following what is going on It will be useful for teachers ..."- Ian McNeilly, director of the National Association for the

Teaching of English”

USER: Verbal Arts Centre

Verbal Arts Centre (NI) LtdStable Lane and Mall WallBishop Street WithinDerry / LondonderryNorthern Ireland BT48 6P

Capital

Investment …

£100,000

Expert

ise …

USER: Verbal Arts Centre**The Verbal Arts Centre is a specialist centre for the development

of literacy through creative engagement where literacy is defined as

the ability to read, write, communicate (talking & listening) and

comprehend …

**This project is an appropriate and engaging fit between the parties

involved, with all participants potentially gaining valuable experience and

enhanced skill sets through the production of a work of art that could make a

significant contribution to the collective learning of the region.

**The Verbal Arts Centre has been promoting sequential art and supporting comic culture for the last three and a half years … The Centre has also developed a capital facility for the production of related print work and is developing ways to create high quality comics and graphic novels …

James Kerr - Executive Director

Verbal Arts Centre (NI) LtdStable Lane and Mall WallBishop Street WithinDerry / LondonderryNorthern Ireland BT48 6P

“2D” Ireland's foremost

comics festival

**success of the

“Blood Upon the Rose”

**SOLD OUT

… !!!

O’Briens Press12 Terenure Road East, Rathgar, Dublin 6, Ireland

Distribution / Market; Local

Classical Comics Limited LitchboroughTowcesterNN12 9ARUnited Kingdom

Distribution / Market;

International :

Interstellar!! "I'm fascinated by your approach to the play and its language … I think that what you are doing in illuminating and making perhaps more lucid, especially for young people, is clever and meaningful."-

Sir Patrick Stewart: Actor and captain of the starship enterprise

ahepburn MDES PRES1 User Its only a Comic

Education

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