Abstract:

Crimes such as theft, murder and rape have become quite common today. This situation caused the values education to gain importance. Cartoons have an important place especially in children’s life. For this reason the characteristics of the cartoons that children watch must be well known. In this research “Pırıl” cartoon which is the local production published on TRT Çocuk channel was examined in terms of values education. The document review technique, which is one of the qualitative research, methods was used in the research. The 5 most watched episodes of the cartoon were screened by watching them at least twicw through content anlysis. A table of values was prepared based on Birkök’s classification of values and Maslow’s approach to the Hierarchy of Nedds. All 5 sections were analyzed by categorical content analysis method, one of the content analysis types. In our research values are given in separate titles and exemplified from the parts of the cartoon. At the end of the research 15 values were determined in the cartoon responsibility, courtesy, benevolence, aesthetics, friendship, kindness desire to know and understand, trust, self-confidence, generosity, confort, tolerance, honesty, love and regret. The most included value among this is “courtesy”. In addition the values of “aesthetics and responsibility” are among the very past values.

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