The Usage of Educational Media Resources for the Development of the Personality of Children in a Family: the Analysis of Parental Opinions

Abstract

The article analyzes the parental opinion on features of the usage of modern media resources in organizing for the development of the personality process in a family. The purpose of research was to study of parents' understanding of the goals and objectives of media education and also the real parents' needs in media resources to facilitate the process of personality development their children and give them new information about the process of education. We used the following methods of cognition: a problem method, a survey method, a system-structural method. The study involved 500 parents from different regions of Russia (62 regions). Parents were asked 6 questions. The survey showed that parents confuse the concepts of "media education" and "information communication technologies". They mean digital education by media education. This creates a false understanding of the goals of media education. Also most often parents refer to media resources to look for ready-made solutions to educational tasks for their children. At the same time the potential of educational media platforms and other resources for personality development children remains little in demand. The use of media resources by parents to study various approaches to raising children is difficult due to the peculiarities of people mentality of the country, accustomed to adopt the model of education from parent family. The study made it possible to identify the difficulties of learning schoolchildren with the help of media resources. It concludes that, first of all, parents do not indicate the difficulty of a technical nature (the lack of a computer in the family, the lack of an Internet connection) and distrust to the usage of new information technologies as children's personality development tools. The difficulties were in organizing qualitative learning process in new conditions that children could master with a high degree of motivation and independence. Parents are often not aware of the goals and objectives of media education. Therefore, parents and children need clarification about the goals of media education. Competent pedagogical support of the media education process can help parents become "allies", and not "opponents" of teachers in the formation of media skills of schoolchildren.

Research Gaps and Future Trends in Educational Media and Educational Theater Research: Analytical Study in Scopus and Web of Science Databases

“…J.A. Bonus, J. Watts, D. Stemen and L. Gritsai (Bonus et al, 2022;Gritsai, 2021) explored that educational media by parents is accepted as a medium of personality development in children. Hence, in the web of science database too although various research has explored the educational media implementation the examination highlighted that having the quantitative analysis or reviewbased analysis methods mainly, the application is reserved for enhancing the learning of children and majorly used for social areas and not technical learning.…”