シンブン ノ ヤクワリ ダイガク ノ NIE （Newspaper In Education） オ カンガエル

In the1960s when Japan was in the middle of change toward the high level of the economic growth, newspaper was the most useful media for information. Everyone reads newspaper no matter how old he/she was in order to survive in the highly advanced society that valued one’s academic background. However, due to the spread of television, internet and cellular phone, the methods of the information gathering has dramatically changed. Especially, the young generations greatly influenced by the TV media became to read less newspaper and mainly depend on the internet and cellular phone for information gathering and communication because of the convenience. Interestingly, the communication using pictorial symbol that used to be the communication method of ancients has revived in the modern society as smiley and crying face used to be the communication used in emails through cellular phone. Although it is difficult to conclude whether the unique culture for youngsters is progression or retrogression, there is no gainsaying that the trends has negatively affect the literacy level of Japanese children. Our current society became the multi-media society including newspaper, TV, the internet and cellular phone, information is always overflowing everywhere. However, it is necessary to acquire the thinking skill in order to select and effectively utilize the information. Newspaper can be the best media to improve ability to think such as thinking and judging. The trends that young people especially college students who are going out into the world do not read newspaper could result in the decline of the society’competence such as reading, writing listening thinking and telling. As the reflection of this concern, recently more universities use newspaper as class material. In this paper, the role of newspaper in the college education was discussed and suggestions for future media education were provided