Based on the results of the study, several recommendations were offered, including conducting seminars and workshops for faculty members, conducting more studies on media education and its impact on teaching learning process, and integrating a course in media education within the curricula of universities. While no statistically significant differences were found due to gender and type of college, there were differences due to years of experience in the participants’ responses. The results of the study have revealed that media education plays an important role in building up the cognitive, the affective, and the behavioral components of the students’ dispositions.

A total of 252 faculty members completed and returned the questionnaires. The study population consisted of all faculty members, 316 male and 88 female. This study used the quantitative research methodology. The study further examined the impact of the variables of gender, type of college and years of experience on participants’ responses. The purpose of this study is to investigate the perceptions of faculty members at Al al-Bayet University regarding the role of media education in building up students’ dispositions. The findings suggested that more contextual and in-depth approaches are needed to assess the students' media use patterns, from which relevant media education models can be derived. The teachers were also not able to make very accurate predictions of their students' skills in media evaluation. They were more content-oriented in choosing a particular newspaper or TV channel instead of being influenced by their teachers and parents. In addition, they were found to be more proactive media users than their teachers thought. Results showed that, these students, despite being the new generation of the new media still believed that the news from television, radio and newspapers are more reliable. The media awareness and media use patterns of students with regard to newspapers, television programmes, radio channels and the Internet were investigated. This study examined media use and media awareness for Primary 4 students from four schools in Hong Kong (equivalent to Grade 4 in America) and how well their teachers understood their habits of and preferences for media use.

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