I often struggle with arguing about the validity of Media Studies as a subject – partly through self-loathing, but also because a tiny part of my mind is a bit Daily Mail Continue reading
If we were to strip away the media from media education, what would we be left with? Continue reading
Education has such an important role in one’s life that it is not surprising that it has been the locus of the sharpest controversies for hundreds of years. Continue reading
Whatever media education actually is, there is a clear and urgent case to guide education and media studies to better understandings of disability. Continue reading
My main interest in media education has been from the perspective of a classroom teacher, a role I have fulfilled for over 15 years… Continue reading
Growing up in nineteen eighties and nineties Liverpool, I consumed a lot of television. Continue reading
With regard to access to technology and the use of digital tools, Norway and the Nordic countries are ahead of most other regions in the world. Continue reading
What the Manifesto for Media Education Symposium seemed to be asking is how and what and why we should teach the media. Continue reading
In the 1990s, the then Education Secretary in the UK, John Patten, called media courses and programmes, ‘pseudo religion’ and a ‘cultural Disneyland’. Continue reading
Over the past fifteen years, I have worked with young people in various forms of creative media production, largely through Pacific Cinémathèque, Western Canada’s leading film institute… Continue reading
At the Manifesto symposium held in London on June 10th, we did some rethinking of aspects of media education. Continue reading
I teach at The BRIT School in South London, perhaps better known for producing musicians and performers, but we also teach young people Continue reading
Media education is a basic entitlement for all children and young people. At least that’s what the Australian government recently decided by choosing to include Media as one of… Continue reading
According to the Confederation of British Industry (2009) Future Fit: Preparing Graduates for the World of Work report, “when asked in a CBI survey what universities should prioritize, 82% of employers chose ‘improving students’ employability skills’…” Continue reading
My concern is the education of those who work in the media. When you’re running a digital media business your primary asset is… Continue reading
Like all discussion about learning in general, media education is clearly more than just what happens in schools. Continue reading
Reading through the contributions submitted so far, the diversity of the various manifestos presented is quite striking and fascinating. Continue reading
This manifesto forum is encouraging us to ask questions about what media education is for, and how it is constituted… Continue reading
In the early morning of September 11, 2001, I was at the Oakland, California Airport getting ready to board a cross-country flight. Continue reading
Academics, media artists, and journalists have been writing extensively about “new media” since… Continue reading
The ‘elephant in the room’ is the naming of the beast; how to call what we do? That the study… Continue reading
“Pedagogical experience demonstrates that instruction in concepts is impossible. It is pedagogically fruitless… Continue reading
This online space has enabled a productive dialogue about aims, ethos and aspirations for media education… Continue reading
In Brazil, media literacy is taken as a core resource to strengthen our relatively young democracy… Continue reading
Media education has a long tradition in the English speaking world, where the study of mass media… Continue reading
Let’s assume that media education is already embedded in the learning environment in a ubiquitous way… Continue reading
Because this is a manifesto I don’t feel the need to provide the exact references but… Continue reading
Before addressing issues in media education, we need to ask a more fundamental question… Continue reading
As part of a ‘Life Cycles’ project a reception infant class (4 and 5 years old) had made a collage Continue reading
In March 2009, important German institutions and organisations for media education from… Continue reading
For most of my career, I’ve engaged with ideas about media education, taught, trained… Continue reading
People who were infants in the late 1980s and early 1990s now run media studies departments… Continue reading
Through my practice as film producer, I have learned that well-reflected viewing… Continue reading
To be honest at the outset, I’m not sure that a manifesto for Media Education (capitals intentional)… Continue reading
There has been a lot of rhetoric in recent years about the failure of schools. Successive political… Continue reading
In my former life as head of the media pedagogy department in the Austrian Ministry of… Continue reading
Though there is increasing interest to guide education towards sustainability issues… Continue reading
Sometimes, as we struggle for resources and for progress in a parsimonious, post banking-debacle… Continue reading
I live and teach in a small South Pacific nation (4.2 million) where, with surprising ease, Media Studies… Continue reading
“It’s a transmitter, a radio for speaking to God….” Belloq, Raiders of the Lost Ark Continue reading
Harold Adams Innis (1894 – 1952) knew that the university as a culturally beneficial… Continue reading
The past few decades have represented a phase of profound and prolonged media change of a kind seen only… Continue reading
We are, yet again, at a moment in the history of higher education in England when the arts, humanities and… Continue reading
What is media education for? At the school level, we hope that it can help students to deal with the vast… Continue reading
As media educators, we have spent so long campaigning for our field that most of us could probably rehearse… Continue reading
“I did not have an education, so I had to use my brains” Bill Shankly Liverpool Football Manager. Like Shankly… Continue reading
The media studies that I like have some or all of the following features, and they share these features with… Continue reading
If media education is worth having, then everyone should have it. That’s my starting-point for… Continue reading
Manifestos are not what they used to be. In the UK context, it has become a pedestrian discursive… Continue reading
I am a geek. I always have been. According to the physicist, Professor Brian Cox, being a geek is… Continue reading
