Abstract
In this study, while the definition of informal education, which displays the main features of lifelong learning, is made, it is also attempted to identify the contributions of the local newspapers, through which the society can reach its own unique and necessary information, to the lifelong learning of their readers. In the research, within this scope, it was aimed to evaluate the contributions of local newspapers to lifelong learning according to the opinions of the local newspaper readers in Bartin Province in Turkey. Among the mixed research patterns, converging parallel pattern was used in the research. The screening model was used in the quantitative research phase, and the phenomenological pattern was used in the qualitative research phase. As a result of the research, according to the opinions of the readers, about the contributions of local newspapers to life-long learning were found to be significantly different to gender, educational status, title and institution, local newspaper reading frequency and duration variables .In the study, it was concluded that the local newspapers were able to contribute to their readers' lifelong learning through the availability of limited opportunities and access to public institutions and employees, even at the point of insufficient education, health, environment, socio-cultural life, employment and labor news. To make more news in local newspapers on education, health, socio-cultural, environment and labor market and employment may contribute to lifelong learning.
Highlights
While the physical boundaries of the world we know are constantly being renewed in unlimited change and development in the fields of science and technology, the concept of appropriate medium, time or climate, with the international meaning, as a means to the learning of individuals, brings to mind all kinds of interaction and learning materials that can be used together with the environment in which the people live
There is a significant difference in the opinions of readers about the contribution of local newspapers to lifelong learning according to the frequency of reading local newspapers in the research
There is a significant difference between those with a frequency of reading local newspapers as "Everyday" and "Monthly", and it is determined that this difference is in favor of those who read "Everyday"
Summary
While the physical boundaries of the world we know are constantly being renewed in unlimited change and development in the fields of science and technology, the concept of appropriate medium, time or climate, with the international meaning, as a means to the learning of individuals, brings to mind all kinds of interaction and learning materials that can be used together with the environment in which the people live. Today's societies, in which education and instruction cannot be confined to schools and classes only in an institutional sense, and lifelong learning is a need and necessity, have had to re-examine the personal development of individuals and the needs of their communities and in parallel, lifelong learners have come to the forefront because it describes each situation as a phenomenon that will happen at any moment, rather than compressing learning into a field of life. Lifelong learning can be defined as a learning strategy that encompasses all purposeful learning activities, whether formal or informal, carried out continuously to develop knowledge, skills and competence [8]
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