Table 4. Teachers’ Use of Media Education Elements in Schools
Age/gender of teachers
Elements of media education are used during the lessons
No elements of media education are used during lessons
It is hard to answer this question
Number of teachers (in %) who chose the answer
Age 21-30 /total
70,00
0,00
30,00
21-30/men
100,00
0,00
0,00
21-30 /women
57,14
0,00
42,86
Age 31-40 /total
41,67
25,00
33,33
21-30/men
50,00
0,00
50,00
21-30 /women
37,50
37,50
25,00
Age 41-50/total
36,36
18,18
45,45
41-50/men
25,00
25,00
50,00
41-50 /women
42,86
14,28
42,86
Age 51-60 /total
25,00
33,33
41,67
51-60/men
60,00
20,00
20,00
51-60/women
0,00
42,86
57,14
Age 61-70 /total
8,33
25,00
50,00
61-70/men
0,00
0,00
100,00
61-70/women
10,00
30,00
60,00
All age groups/total
35,09
21,05
43,86
All age groups/men
50,00
11,11
38,89
All age groups/women
28,20
25,64
46,15
Let’s remind ourselves that the analysis of the figures of Table 2 showed that about 75% of the teachers think that media education of the schoolchildren is the essential component of the modern educational process. At the same time figures of Table 4 tell us that in reality only 35, 09% (50% of men and 28,2% of women with the majority under 51 years old) of the questioned teachers were confident to say that they use elements of media education during their lessons.
21, 05% of the teachers (11,11% of men and 25, 64% of women, the majority belongs to the elder generation) confess that they never use media education elements at their classes. The rest of the teachers are not sure what to answer. We can see the reason for that: the analysis of the following tables (Table 5, Table 6) reveals that about half of the teachers use media material during their lessons very seldom, because they feel that they lack knowledge about theory and methods of teaching media (the latter, to our mind, is another serious argument for the introduction of the new university-level Major- ‘Media Education” in pedagogical institutes).
Data about the frequency of media educational lessons, conducted by the teachers are presented in Table 5.