Review article

Integrating the Book into Media Education Syllabi

Manca Košir

Abstract

Media education is an independent subject or an integral part of other subjects in curricula
at all levels of education in numerous countries. These countries recognise that
in the contemporary world our time and environment are fundamentally defined by the
mass media.
Recent media research indicates a clear predominance of the visual media and new
technologies over other forms of media communication. The book as the oldest mass
medium has been marginalised in use and excluded from media education courses.
The author argues that the book should be introduced in media education syllabi and
that an appropriate environment should be secured where the book will receive due
attention. Media competence, which is the proclaimed aim of all models of media education,
cannot be achieved without reading literacy.

Keywords

media competence; media education; book as medium

Hrčak ID:

23358

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/23358

Publication date:

20.5.2002.

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