David Buckingham 
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.

Table of Content

Preface and Acknowledgments.

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

About the author

David Buckingham is a Professor of Education and Director of the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media at the Institute of Education, University of London.