International Online Journal of Education and Teaching (IOJET), cilt.8, sa.3, ss.1692-1705, 2021 (Hakemli Dergi)
The present study aimed to determine the role of media literacy education in value
acquisition based on the views of pre-service social studies teachers. The study was designed
with the phenomenology method, a qualitative research design. The study group was
assigned with criterion sampling, a purposive sampling method. Study data were collected
with the interview method. The data were analyzed with the descriptive analysis technique.
According to pre-service social studies teachers, the significant roles of media literacy
education in sustaining the values included raising consciousness, raising awareness, and
improving unity, and the participants also mentioned collaboration, guidance, prevention of
immorality and socio-cultural degeneration, production of ideas, improvement of
interpersonal relations, prevention of the loss of values, active transfer of the values to future
generations, comprehension of the values, recognition of the importance of the values,
comprehension of the effect of values on individuals, providing information, serving as the
main auxiliary resource in value acquisition, contribution to mastering and comprehension of
the topic, and contribution to permanent learning. On the positive contributions of media
literacy education to value acquisition, most pre-service teachers included raising
consciousness, cooperation, development of a critical perspective, revelation of the lost
values, and raising awareness.