SDGs through Media Art：MANGA Production I

—Fostering the Ability to Think and Communicate Concerns for Social Issues—

Abstract

ESD clarified the actualization of the 17 goals of the SDGs towards “ESD for 2030” at the 40^th session of the UNESCO General Assembly in 2019. ESD learning and activities aim in order to create a sustainable society by considering various issues in modern society as their own problems. This type of learning also gears towards the familiar places for creating new values and behaviors that lead to their solutions. In this study, I examined the general qualities and abilities to contemplate the problems of modern society as Research I, especially for the Department of Arts and Crafts using manga expressions that penetrate the world beyond the language barrier. While examining the practice of junior high school and high school students, I consider the overall practice of “sustainable society through manga” from the elementary school to high school. Because of interests change in social issues and feeling changes towards the own works according to the developmental stages, the possibilities of deepening creative thinking occur in order to communicate the content of thought and expression by using visual language.