Over the last decades Media Education has gradually obtained an educational status in many countries throughout the world although few countries have actually incorporated this subject in their formal school curricula. Where Media Education is taught today, it is principally carried out using a relaxed, pluralistic and a cross- or multidisciplinary approach. This book sets out to explore this new approach to the subject via chapters that are representative of ongoing work by leading Media Education researchers in nine different countries and from all five continents. Media Education is continually evolving and the individual chapters indicate that the passion for the subject is global while the actual translations of practices and policies are very much local. The book expands the debate about Media Education beyond the traditions and interests of one part of the world to encompass the needs of the rest.
Introduction, Tony Lavender and Birgitte Tufte. Media Education: The Curriculum and Teacher Training in Scotland, Tony Lavender. Media: The Alternative School, Birgitte Tufte. Considerations of Difference: South African Media Education Initiatives and the Politics of Identity, Jeanne Prinsloo. The Understanding of Television by Kindergartners: The Early Development of Television Literacy, Dafna Lemish. The Plot Thickens: A Cultural Studies Approach to Media Education in India, K.P. Jayasankar and Anjali Monteiro. Critical Media and Cultural Studies in New Times, Carmen Luke. A Media Education for the 21st Century, Manuel Alvarado. New Trends in Mass Communication Research: Implications for Media Education, Keval J. Kumar. The Active Approach in Media Education, Jose Martinez-de-Toda. Glocalizing Media Education: A Pedagogy of Plenty, Dafna Lemish. Author Index. Subject Index.
