INTEGRATION OF MEDIA AND CRITICAL LITERACY INTO CURRICULUM THROUGH THINKING EDUCATION: FROM TEACHER TRAINING PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

This research has pointed out the effects of thinking education on the prospective teachers’critical and media literacies. The research, designed as mixed method with sequentialtriangulation, has enlightened the efficacy of thinking education on the prospective teachers’literacies. The study group, selected by the sampling criteria, one of the purposive samplingmethods, composed of 40 social studies prospective teachers, having been trained in terms ofthinking critically on media messages and texts, at Education Faculty, Bartin Universityduring the 2016‐2017 academic year. It is concluded that post-test media literacy and criticalliteracy scores of the trained prospective teachers have increased. Moreover, the positiveeffects of thinking education on the prospective teachers’ media and critical literacies areexpressed in detail within the framework of various qualitative data and it is inferred thatthinking education reached the goal of training critical literate and media literate individuals.Furthermore, how to integrate media literacy and critical literacy into any curriculum inteacher education has been exemplified through this research. Therefore, these literaciesshould be taught independently from any subject or a discipline as the objectives of teachereducation curriculum.