Leadership and Values in Language Education - Al Akhawayn ...

83Proceedings of the 27 th MATE Annual ConferenceThe second bar to the left represents the role of the parents and school in theteaching of beliefs. Clearly enough, all the subjects have expressed their strongdisagreement on this statement, implying that the media do actually act as asource for learning beliefs related knowledge. This conclusion, which also appliesto the media as a source for learning and adopting new norms, values andpractices, is endorsed by the reported statements below by the subjectsthemselves.V. Verbal ReportsThe section at hand aspires to let the reader hear young citizens themselves reportabout the different influences that media have on the four investigated aspects oftheir culture. Then, to confirm the students’ reports, parents’ assertions have alsotaken part in this section.1. Student Reports.The outstanding proclamations of students that caught the researcher’s attentionare the following:• Norms :Student 1: “if norms are what make things normal, then we have the same(norms as other cultures”.Researcher: “why are you saying that?”S1: “because things that are (were) not normal in society (in the past) are normalnow”R: “why are they normal now?”S1: “…because many students just imitate….”• Values:Question: “ do you think it is a good thing to have the same values all over theworld?”Student 2: “…it is good if all the people have the same values”.R: “why?”S2: “ There will be no wars in the world”.S3: “No teacher, …. The world will be boring…”• Beliefs :S4: “not all the media in the world can change my beliefs … But they influencethem…”