Media education : literacy, learning, and contemporary culture / David Buckingham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buckingham, David, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media in education.

Media literacy.

Physical Description:

xii, 219 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Malden, MA : Distributed in the USA by Blackwell Pub., 2003.

Summary:

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 -- 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 people's lives, and provides an accessible and cogent set of principles on which the media curriculum should be based, and a clear rationale for pedagogic practice. It outlines how media educators should respond to contemporary social, political and technological developments, and to the changing role and function of education itself. David Buckingham is one of the leading international experts in the field. Media Education represents a distillation of his key arguments, and an authoritative analysis of the challenges that lie ahead for media educators.

Contents:

Why teach the media?

New media childhoods

Media literacies

Defining the field

Classroom strategies

Locating media education

Becoming critical

Getting creative

Defining pedagogy

Politics, pleasure and play

Digital literacies

New sites of learning.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [204]-215) and index.

ISBN:

074562829X

0745628303

OCLC:

51178215