The presence of media education in the second generation curricula in Algeria: Literary subjects book (Arabic language - Islamic education - civic education) for the second year of primary school as an example

Abstract

This research work attempts to discuss the problem associated with the presence of « media education » in the second generation of primary education curricula, and to research the forms of its presence and the way it is presented to young pupils, relying on the combined triple literature book (Arabic language - Islamic education - civic education) for the second year of primary school as a purposive sample.

 We used the content analysis approach as a research method, which allowed us to reach several results, the most important of which is that media education is not sufficiently present in the content of this book, and does not live up to the level of desired aspirations. Also, its presence as « a term » is absent verbally and it is not named, while its presence as « a practice » is present, but in a small way, while we record the existence of a kind of confusion in the concepts between it and civic education.