Closing MIRACLE, opening doors

Climate change, whole class co-creation, and comics in education. The MIRACLE project, which weaves these three things together, is coming to an end this month, but the resources it has generated will remain freely accessible to students, teachers and teachers-to-be.

On 7 August, University of Malta staff participated in a session about the impacts of MIRACLE (‘coMics and IllustRations Augmented to tackle Climate change in primary education’) organised by the project’s lead at the University of Malta, Prof. Ġorġ Mallia. This was part of the effort to ensure that the project continues to leave an impact even beyond its end date.

The session explored the following:

• MIRACLE’s focus on child (and adult) empowerment
• tackling climate anxiety through anti-disinformation efforts and visual storytelling
• the importance of education and messaging in general being accessible and inclusive, two characteristics that are, in a sense, ‘automatic’ when visual communication – such as comics – is involved
• the MOOC developed by MIRACLE project partners (which is freely accessible online)
• visual narrative, with real-world examples used to illustrate the power comics and graphic novels have in telling important stories

MIRACLE is an Erasmus+ project which brings together partners from Malta, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Croatia and Portugal working to help teachers empower their students through climate change consciousness, whole-class co-creation and eco-optimism in school and out of it. And all of this through the use of comics that have been enhanced for interaction.

Learn more about MIRACLE on the project website.