Abstract:
Purposes The purpose of the study were: 1. To study the types of mass media and how they were used by teachers and students for social studies instruction at the upper secondary education level in educational region nine. 2. To study the opinions of teachers and students on the following aspects: 2.1 The usage of content of mass media. 2.2 The problems and obstacles in using mass media for social studies instruction. 3. To study the suggestions of the teachers and the students in using mass media for social studies instruction. Procedures A questionnaire was constructed by the researcher and administered to 80 teachers and 400 students selected by stratified random technique from 10 government schools in educational region nine. The collected data were analyzed by means of percentage, arithmetic mean and the standard deviation. Results: 1. The social studies teachers used various types of mass media for instruction and most of them used printing mass media especially newspapers. Both teachers and students indicated that social studies teachers seldom used most forms of mass media. 2. The teachers and the students indicated that all types of mass media were very useful and informative at the high level especially radios, televisions, videotapes, movies, newspapers, magazines and journals which provide content knowledge, news programme, and documentary series. 3. Both teachers and students indicated that content and information from mass media were very beneficial at high level for themselves and for social studies instruction. 4. Problems and obstacles in using mass media for social studies instruction were at average level. 5. Both teachers and students suggested that mass media present more content knowledge which help foster social values, ethics, culture for the use in daily life.