Original scientific paper
Attitudes of classroom and Croatian language teachers towards media education in Croatian primary schools
Lana Ciboci Perša
orcid.org/0000-0003-1495-9573
; Hrvatsko katoličko sveučilište, Zagreb
Abstract
Media education is becoming increasingly important in today’s digital society because it provides students with the knowledge and skills to critically understand and analyze media content. For students to become media literate, they must be guided and educated by media-competent teachers. Teachers’ attitudes play a crucial role in successfully implementing media education in the school environment. Encouraging positive attitudes requires educational institutions’ support, informal lifelong learning programs, quality teaching materials, and the exchange of experiences and examples of good practice among the teachers themselves. Media education in Croatia is primarily carried out through teaching the Croatian language, which is why classroom and Croatian language teachers play the most crucial role in the media literacy of children in primary schools. In recent years, significant changes have been made within media education - from changing the contents and putting more emphasis on digital media content to the growing interest of the academic community and the implementation of numerous researches on media education and media literacy of all members of society, including children and teachers. The first survey after the curricular reform on teachers’ attitudes towards media education, which was conducted among 2,229 teachers, showed only minor changes in teachers’ attitudes compared to the results of previous surveys. The teachers themselves are still very critical of their media competencies; most believe that a subject dealing only with media education should be introduced in schools, and there is still no uniform practice regarding the lesson time teachers devote to media education.
Keywords
media literacy, media education, teachers, Croatian language, primary school
Hrčak ID:
311946
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Publication date:
21.12.2023.
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