Media Education Literacy, Learning and Contemporary Culture

Name: Media Education Literacy, Learning and Contemporary Culture
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ISBN: 9780745628301

ISBN-10: 0745628303

ISBN-13: 9780745628301

Edition: 2003

Authors: David Buckingham

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How should education respond to the challenges of an increasingly mediated world? How can it enable young people to become active, critical participants in the media culture that surrounds them? And how can it keep pace with the complex technological, cultural and economic changes that are currently reshaping the contemporary media environment? These are some of the questions that arise in the area of media education or media literacy, as it is sometimes called which is gradually becoming recognized as a key aspect of the school curriculum in many countries. This book takes account of recent changes both in the media and in young peoplersquo;s lives, and provides an accessible and…

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List price: $31.25
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 9/11/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.05" wide x 9.05" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgements



Rationales



Why Teach the Media?


What are media?


What is media education?


Why media education?


The evolution of media education in the UK


Democratization and defensiveness


Towards a new paradigm


Moving ahead: teaching and learning


Moving ahead: a bigger picture


A continuing story



New Media Childhoods


Childhood and the media


Changing childhoods


Technologies


Economics


Texts


Audiences


Implications for education



Media Literacies


Defining literacy


A social theory of literacies


Mapping media literacies


Beyond the magic window


Reality problems


The limits of assessment


Why literacy?



The State of the Art



Defining the Field


Production


Language


Representation


Audiences


Key concepts in practice


Conclusion: some general principles



Classroom Strategies


Textual analysis


Contextual analysis


Case studies


Translations


Simulations


Production


Conclusion



Locating Media Education


A separate academic subject: Media Studies


Media education across the curriculum


Media education in language and literature teaching


Media education and ICTs


Vocational media education


Media education beyond the classroom


Conclusion



Media Learning



Becoming Critical


The social functions of 'criticism'


Critical language games


Approaching 'ideology'


Learning critical discourse


Beyond criticism?



Getting Creative


Changing practices


The limits of 'creativity'


The social worlds of production


Writing media


Using genres


Conclusion



Defining Pedagogy


Understanding conceptual learning


Towards a dynamic model


Researching audiences: the social self


Self-evaluation: from practice to theory


Beyond the model



New Directions



Politics, Pleasure and Play


Postmodern identities?


Playful pedagogies


The politics of parody


Working through pleasure?


Conclusion



Digital Literacies


Towards digital literacies


Models of digital production


The meanings of 'access'


Processes and products


Technology and pedagogy



New Sites of Learning


Media education beyond the classroom


Media and youth work


Media and 'informal' learning


Evaluation


Towards deschooling?


References


Index