Abstract:

In this study, the aim is to determine the student attitudes towards the Media Reading course, identify the opinions of the teacher and the teacher candidates. In research, quantum and quality research methods are used together and work is designed by the karma method. The research was used in the quantum size of the attitude scale and in the quality size of the conversation form. The study group, in which the quantitative data of the research is collected, is made up of 103 seventh-class students who do not receive the media reading course with 153 eighth-class students who take the media reading course in the 5th high school where the selectively media reading course is given in the 2017-2018 educational year. A total of 256 students participated in the study. The work group in which the qualifying data are collected is 5 social information, 1 Turkish teacher and 15 Turkish and 15 social information teacher candidates who study at the Faculty of Education of the University of Giresun. The SPSS program is used in the analysis of Nicel data. In the analysis of the quality data, the data collected through conversations is analyzed by content analysis. According to the results of the study, there is no meaningful difference between the attitudes of students who take and don’t take the Media Reading course to the media’s perception form, the media tools of the students are preferred in the same rankings and, respectively, the internet, television, magazine, newspaper, radio preferred, the Internet preferred classes, the magazine preferred classes, the Media Reading course is perceived as an unnecessary course, the media Reading course is not processed, the media Reading course is used as the complementary of the other branches of the time dedicated to this course.

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