5-6 Years Old Children's Perceptions of Cartoon Reality

Abstract

The present study aims to analyse the perceptions of reality of 5-6 year old children about the cartoons they watch. The study group of the research includes pre-schoolers. Within the scope of the study, a private pre-schooland a public pre-school which volunteered to be a part of the study were determined, and the study was carrie dout with 101 randomly-chosen students. The data were collected via face-to-face interviewing. The answers responding semi-structured interviews were noted down. Expert opinion sand the literature were taken into consideration for the preparation of the questions. The pictures that the children drew were also used as another data source. In the study, descriptive analysis, content analysis, and interpretative analysis were used. It was determined that the content of the cartoons varied depending on gender, that the children from the schools of low socio-economic level could not distinguish real elements from the imaginary ones while watching cartoons, and that some children were in clined to transform the elements which were imaginary into realisticones in their minds.