Efficacy of television as a medium of educating children

ABSTRACT

This study was aimed at providing the efficacy of television as a medium of educating children, examining ‘Barney and Friends’ the television programme.

In order to create a background for this study relevant literatures were reviewed in chapter two thereby giving an insight into the nature of television, the concept of socialization, the socialization function of television, television as a teaching aid, television and its strength in influencing children’s behaviour as well' as exploration of the case study ‘Barney and Friends’. Questionnaires were administered to children and two head of schools were interviewed orally, the questionnaires were 40 in number and were all recovered from the analysis of the data collected, an overwhelming number of respondents agreed the influencing power of television on the behaviour of children and its efficacy as a medium of education.