Media Education
Literacy, Learning and Contemporary Culture
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.
Part I: Rationales:.
1. Why Teach the Media?.
2. New Media Childhoods.
3. Media Literacies.
Part II: The State of the Art:.
4. Defining the Field.
5. Classroom Strategies.
6. Locating Media Education.
Part III: Media Learning:.
7. Becoming Critical.
8. Getting Creative.
9. Defining Pedagogy.
Part IV: New Directions:.
10. Politics, Pleasure and Play.
11. Digital Literacies.
12. New Sites of Learning.
References.
Index
insightfully surveying the field, probing the debates and
controversies, assessing out motives for teaching the media but
leaving us a road map for map for the future. Covering both
analysis and production, including the new digital technologies,
this book is a must-have for the serious media
teacher.'
Barry Duncan, media education consultant, Toronto
'Media Education offers a comprehension overview of the
debates, the theories and the principles that have underprinned the
teaching of media, and makes a clear and urgent case for how it
should proceed in the future. Buckingham provides a thorough and
convincing rationale for a form of media education that is both
theoretically sound and practically possible.'
Dr Sue Turnbell, La Trobe University
'Buckingham marshals all his considerable talent to define
the field of media education in an engaging and compelling style.
This inspiring book moves educational reform ahead by light
years.'
Kathleen Tyner, author of Literacy in a Digital World