SARSAR, Fırat Ege Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi, Turkey , ENGİN, Gizem Ege Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi, Turkey

Investigation of The Media Literacy Level of Primary School Teacher Candidates

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Media literacy is to understand the messages which are given via media tool and react after analyzing and evaluating the messages. It is critical to know how to teach media literacy. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the level of pre-school teachers’ media literacy level. This study also seeks to understand relations between media literacy and the frequency of watching TV, reading newsletter and having internet connection. Current study was conducted with 188 pre-school teachers at Ege University during fall semester in 2014-2015 academic year. The Media and TV Literacy Level Survey created by Korkmaz and Yeşil (2011) was carried out. According to results of the current study, there is no significant different between gender and Media Literacy as well as between social media and Media Literacy. There is a significant difference between the participants who follow the magazines/newsletters regularly and Media Literacy, and no significant difference between the participants who follow the magazines/newsletters regularly and addiction

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Media literacy , teacher candidate , faculty of education , television literacy , primary school teacher

ege journal of education

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