a role of the family in the media education of the preschool children in poland: a case study of...
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A role of the family in the media education of the preschool children in Poland:
a case study of Lodz
Agata Walczak-Niewiadomska
Ewelina Makowska
University of Lodz
My Media Playground 2nd biannual seminar on media education in childhood,
14.–15.2.2013 Tampere, Finland
Outline
● Introduction
● Research Questions & Methodology
● Results
● Conclusions
The research conducted in March/April 2012 by Interactive Research Center showed:
- 60,5 % Polish children watch TV few hours a day
- 95,1 % watch TV almost everyday
- only 20% watch TV with parent's accompany
Introduction
Source: http://wirtualnemedia.pl [21.05.2012]
Research Questions
How big is the potential influence on the children media literacy development through parental guidance?
How Polish kindergartens support media literacy education among children?
Population in Lodz (in 2011) - 725 055
Density (pop. per km²) - 2472
Administrative map of Lodz
Methodology
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Methodology
Feedback = 63,3 %
Results
Age of the children
3 years old – 15,7%
4 years old – 31%
5 years old – 31%
6 years old – 19,3%
7 years old – 1,6%
Results
Children have access at home to:
- Television 97%
- Radio 88,7%
- DVD player 84,7%
- desktop computer 62%
- laptop/netbook 72,7%
- tablet 16%
- game console 30%
- Internet 94%
Television in children’s lives
How much time children are spending on watching Television?
0,5 h – 4,8%
0,5 – 1 h – 50,2%
2 – 4 h – 39%
5 h > – 2%
Radio in children’s lives
How much time children are spending on listening to radio?
1 h < – 54,7%
1 - 3 h – 35,4%
4 - 6 h – 7,3%
6 h > – 2,6%
Computer in children’s lives
14 % of the children are able to use computer on their own,
but
almost 80 % of them are using computer always under parental guard.
Computer games in children’s lives
Mostly children are playing games on:
= 81,8 % = 30,3 %
= 18,2 %
= 8,6 %
Less popular are:
= 0 %
How much time children are spending on playing computer games?
… numbers are growing
30 min. < – 40,4%
0,5 – 1 h – 35,7%
2 - 4 h – 7%
5 h > – 0,5%
Unfortunately, according to our research, only 18,9% of parents is familiar with PEGI (Pan European Game Information)
You know PEGI, right?
But there is something more to know…
Books in children’s lives
Parents believe that reading to children is very
important.
Almost 62 % of them spend more than
30 minutes
to read to their children every single day.
Not only books, but also magazines are very popular among children:
For more information visit:http://www.allofpolandreadstokids.org/
„All of Poland Reads to Kids”
97 % of the parents is familiar with the social campaign:
Get familiar with Necio.pl – it’s a great web page for your children (11,2% of the parents know it).
Conclusions
Media culture became a big part of children’s lives in Poland.
Children at the age of six and under spend an average of 1 hour daily with screen media, mostly TV. Not only parents, but also kindergarten can shape the understanding of the role of media and technology among children. Most of the kindergartens implement the elements of media education through special classes, mostly for the 5-6-year-olds
Closer cooperation between kindergarten and parents is needed.
Promotion.
Reading still rocks!
Great chance and challenge for the Polish libraries
Conclusions
Thank you for attention
Contact:
awniewiadomska[at]uni.lodz.pl
evelina.makowska[at]gmail.com