THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA IN FORMULATING EDUCATIONAL POLICIES AND DEVELOPING EDUCATION IN IRAQ : A Survey Study

Abstract

This study was carried out in the State of Iraq during the academic year 2022-2023. It aimed to clarify the participation of the Iraqi media in identifying educational problems, and in defining the educational priorities of the Iraqi public in terms of cognitive, emotional and behavioral dimensions, and in determining the extent to which the media helped in drawing up educational policies and following up on their implementation. The research followed the analytical descriptive approach based on a questionnaire consisting of four axes and 27 phrases distributed to a sample of 390 individuals. "Neutral" at 27.3% of the respondents. With regard to the axis of setting priorities, the opinion was “neutral” by 45.9% and “agree” by 33% in the cognitive dimension, and the opinion was “disagreed” by 42.4% and “neutral” by 36.1% in the emotional dimension, and the opinion was “neutral” by 43.1 % and “agree” by 35.5% in the behavioral dimension, while the policy-making axis recorded “neutral” by 46.8% and “agreed” by 33.2%. As for the results of hypothesis testing, it was clear that there was a statistically significant difference at the level of 0.05 between each of the averages. The studied axes and dimensions and between the neutral tested value (3). The study concluded that the role of the Iraqi media was either partial or insufficient in identifying educational problems, in defining educational priorities, and in drawing up educational policies, to the extent that the public opinion decides its direction. Cognitive, emotional and behavioral among the Iraqi public, and the need for coordination between the media and educational sectors in order for each of them to exercise its role effectively to raise the efficiency of the education process.