AN EVALUATION ON ADVERTISING LITERACY EDUCATION: AN ASSESSMENT OF MEDIA LITERACY CURRICULUM IN TERMS OF ADVERTISING LITERACY IN TURKEY
AN EVALUATION ON ADVERTISING LITERACY EDUCATION: AN ASSESSMENT OF MEDIA LITERACY CURRICULUM IN TERMS OF ADVERTISING LITERACY IN TURKEY

Summary/Abstract: Advertising literacy has an elucidative characteristic in order to be comprehended advertisements in a correct manner by children. In relation to this matter, advertising literacy has gained importance in the field of advertising in recent years. Advertising literacy education is a part of media literacy education program. Media literacy education program includes various subjects related to advertising literacy. Media literacy has started to be taught as an elective course since 2007-2008 education term in Turkey. Media literacy curriculum, which was prepared by The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTUK) and The Ministry of National Education (MEB), has been updated in 2014. New media literacy teaching material in primary education started to be taught in 2014-2015 education term. The main focus of this study is an evaluation of media literacy curriculum in terms of advertising literacy in Turkey. In this frame, the content of media literacy course was examined in terms of advertising literacy, and old and new teaching materials in primary education were compared. In this context, the main components of advertising literacy curriculum were identified. Besides, the similarities and dissimilarities of old and new teaching materials in the field of advertising literacy were revealed. The findings of the study indicated that the new teaching material, which is more comprehensive in terms of subjects included in the curriculum regarding advertising literacy, allocates more space to advertising literacy, and embraces the different aspects of advertising literacy. In conjunction with this, the topics associated with advertising literacy are explained in more detail, and the new education program leads students to be more active and to be more productive. Consequently, the new teaching material contributes more to become a conscious advertising literate rather than the old teaching material.

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