- Thesis Title: Desired Methods of Children’s Behavior Shaping on Television Based on the Abparia Series and Blue’s Clues Collection
- Student: Ehsan Shariati Najafabadi
- Supervisor: Hojatoleslam wal-Muslimin Dr. Abdollah Mottaghizadeh
- Advisor: Seyed Ali Mohammad Azarbakhsh
- University: IRIB – Qom
- Major: Television Production
- Degree: Master’s
- Defense Date: May 2015
Abstract:
The subject of this research is to examine the desired methods of children’s behavior shaping on television based on the Abparia series and the Blue’s Clues collection. The purpose of this research is to achieve methods through which proper behavior can be taught to children via television. Accordingly, to achieve this goal, by stating the requirements of television programming, two national productions named Abparia and global production named Blue’s Clues were examined. This study was conducted as a qualitative content analysis using the summative content analysis method. The method of utilization is such that after watching the programs and selecting scenes and parts related to the research topic, each part of the entire program was categorized based on the behavior shaping model stated in the research, and discussed and analyzed through image analysis and behavior shaping methods for children.
The hypothesis of this research was:
It seems that behavior shaping in children’s television programming follows a scientific model capable of managing the domain of children’s knowledge, beliefs, and behavior. The investigation conducted through qualitative content analysis of the two television programs, Blue’s Clues and Abparia, proved this hypothesis and showed that after observing the necessary prerequisites for television programming—understanding the child’s language—attention to the linear model of change in knowledge, attitude, and behavior plays a fundamental role in shaping children’s behavior.
Keywords: Behavior shaping, child’s moral development, information change, attitude change, behavior change, Abparia, Blue’s Clues.
Faculty of seda & sima univercity
Department of prduce
M.A. Thesis
Title of the Thesis
Finding methods for change behavors with television with perusing two children TV show Abparia & Blue’s Clues
Supervisor : Dr. Motaghizadeh
Advisor : Dr.Azarbakhsh
Abstrc:
The objective of this study is about making or change behaviors with television for children. Finding methods with perusing two children TV show Abparia & Blue’s Clues.
The aim of this research is to find ways that we can teach the child proper behavior from television programs. Accordingly, the goal of research is explain who can make behaviors after producer do all of requirements for programing. The study based by qualitative content analysis of two children TV show Abparia & Blue’s Clues. All of the Sequence of two TV shows related by makes behavior analyzed. The Theory is in that TV show when we can make Children behavior after requirement on TV programing, change the children data, change the children attitudes, and changes the children behavior. This results of study showed the theory is correct but it is very related by Moral development of children
Keywords: change behaviors, moral development of the child, changing data, changing attitudes, behavior change, Abparia , Blue’s Clues
