Νέοι μιντιακοί γραμματισμοί εκπαιδευτικών ως προγνωστικός παράγοντας για την αξιοποίηση των ΤΠΕ στο μάθημα της λογοτεχνίας

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The paper aims, through the interpretive perspective of the Theory of Planned Behavior, to examine teachers’ attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control with regard to new media literacies, as defined by Henry Jenkins, primarily in the general context and secondarily in literature’s field. The background behind the research is the proven importance of reading for pleasure for both educational and personal development, coupled with the fact that the time for literature reading internationally, especially among young people, is steadily decreasing. Given that the critical age for the development of literary reading habits is the first school years, and as technology has penetrated young people’s lives to the point of existing enormous discrepancies between the students’ daily practices and the educational ones, we presume that exploiting the new media for stimulating literary interest could be crucial. The most important factor in this process is the teacher who mediates the literature lesson. The questionnaire was distributed to active teachers, upon graduation and postgraduate students of the Pedagogical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (116 questionnaires in total). Our rationale was that, according to the aforementioned theory, the research’s findings could be a predictive factor for teachers’ future pedagogical choices and practices, with regard to the integration of new media into the teaching of literature, as a means of enhancing students’ positive predisposition towards literature and reading for pleasure.