Visions of school director, teacher, student and parents about the effects of mass media tools to education: A case study

Beside industrial society and agricultural society, science circle of our time is trying to assimilate and digest the information society concepts. Thus, as the technological developments are moving ahead inconceivably fast, arguments as `The End of Life? and `The Space Era? , in which humankind is turning to robot, are being done. Societies now witness all these at that point.Moreover, this painful informatics transition period has affected especially the developing societies deeply. As a necessity of being an information society, mass media tools are used widespreadly in political, military, economic and public areas. That?s to say, as an important weapon in the way of reaching the ideals of capitalism and industrialisation, mass media tools has come into our daily lives extremely fast. The mass media tools, which got into our lives either in a systematic way or with a bomb speed as as an societal expression, got into lives of kids who absorb every development in a fast diffusion and consequently to the education circles without fitler and then spreaded widely.In recent years, we witness that our country is having an evalution,which cannot be kept up, in mass media communication. In past, individuals were given shape by means of schools after their parents in cultural and social ways, but now mass media tools lead the way. Especially the students spend most of their time with these mass media tools. That?s to say, the individuals are turned to what they dream not what they really are.The aim of this study is to establish the visions of school director, teacher,student and parents, about the affects of mass media tools to education. The illustration of this research is formed in Toros Vacational School which is connected to National Education Ministry. In this study, which has been formed as a qualitative research, negotiations have been done and participants have put fort their ideas about the topic for consideration. At that point, interesting and important sides of relation between mass media tools and education have been appeared. As a natural feature of qualitative research, it hasn?t been the researcher but the participants who have directed and shaped the research. The datums of research have been analized by the qualitative analising method and diagnosises have been revealed. The interpretations and suggestions have been created according this diagnosis.