Ethnopedagogical Examination of the Most Watched Cartoon by Primary School Students: The Example of Rafadan Tayfa

Ethnopedagogy is expressed as the information that a society uses in raising children, which develops from the roots of its past. According to ethnopedagogy, education begins in the family, not in school, and continues throughout life in the society. One of these educational channels is cartoons, which have an important place in children’s lives. Based on this statement, it is aimed to examine Rafadan Tayfa, the cartoon that children watch the most, in the context of the concept of ethnopedagogy. For this purpose, the first 50 episodes of the cartoon called Rafadan Tayfa were watched by the researchers, and themes and codes were extracted through content analysis. Document analysis, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the research. According to the results of the research, although the expressions related to the concept of ethnopedagogy were not evenly distributed among the sections, it was determined that there were statements about ethnopedagogy in 27 sections within the first 50 sections. At the same time, it has been determined that some ethnopedagogical concepts are expressed in the relevant parts of the cartoon in a way that children can understand and pay attention to.