Media Education: Literacy, Learning and Contemporary CultureISBN: 978-0-7456-2830-1
Paperback
232 pages
June 2003, Polity
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This book examines recent changes in media education and in young
people’s lives, and provides an accessible set of principles
on which the media curriculum should be based, with a clear
rationale for pedagogic practice.
- David Buckingham is one of the leading international experts in
the field - he has more than twenty years’ experience in
media education as a teacher and researcher.
- This book takes account of recent changes both in the media and
in young people’s lives, and provides an accessible and
cogent set of principles on which the media curriculum should be
based.
- Introduces the aims and methods of media education or 'media
literacy'.
- Includes descriptions of teaching strategies and summaries of
relevant research on classroom practice.
- Covers issues relating to contemporary social, political and technological developments.