EFFECTS OF CHILD MAGAZINE ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION: ANALYSIS OF ?PEPEE? MAGAZINE

Abstract

Surrounding stimuli begin to be more meaningful for the children with their increasing cognitive skills and language started to be used more effectively at early childhood. Colorful worlds of books, newspapers and magazines become a new discovery space for children. Pictures are seen in TV, newspapers and magazines increase their sense of wonder. Children find the opportunity to learn social values and the properties of mother tongue and to gain access to content that provide inspiring a sense of wonder in fairy tales and pictures, acquiring reading habits and referring to research and study through children's magazines. In this study, 'Pepee Magazine' that prepared based on 'Pepee' cartoon watched in TV by almost every child in early childhood with exemplary behavior and social codes content will be evaluated in terms of; general characteristics, scientific infra-structure, form and content. While making these evaluations features must be included in children's magazines were taken into consideration. Children's magazines affect children's cognitive and social development and education. Therefore, overlapping contents of magazines with surrounding values in which child live will make easier child?s socialization. In this sense, magazines will be prepared in accordance with characteristics about children development and education. Although preparing magazine of a character attracts the attention of the children evaluated functional in terms of encouragement to read the magazine its availability of visual media may impair to read the journal tendency.