Abstract:

The Elementary Education curriculum were revised in 2004 in Turkey. There have been appeared many news in various newspapers with different tendencies such as conservative and liberal and so forth. The media has played its role to introduce new curricula by its own perceptions or the perceptions of formal authorities. This study addresses on the informative part of this reform: the attempts to introduce into public through media especially the newspapers. The main findings of this study are based on the news and discussions that were appeared on the media besides documentary analysis. It is found that the changes of new elementary education programs were not clearly conceptualized and there were serious lack of communication and information in media. The Turkish daily newspapers, especially, dealt with the popular sides and printed the reportages by staff from Ministry of National Education in spite of detailed study and researches on programs. They paid attention only the slogans of program developers. Just few of them only elicited the results of studies and opinions of educational experts

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