Media education
[COMU2640]
[30h] 5 credits
Teacher(s):
Language: French
Level: Second
Aims
Analysing, delivering and evaluating media education in educational, family and associative environments, and in the media itself.
Situating the issues of media reception and of possible actions, with a view to modifying reception.
Carrying out research in the field.
Main themes
The influence of the media.
Training in the concept of media education and its international variants.
Establishing media education: support theories and pedagogy.
The impact of media education.
Prospects for growth.
Content and teaching methods
- The issue of education in the media, and the basic concepts.
- The projects origins and historical development.
- Comparative study of the various models currently in use in education networks.
- Presentation and discussion of hypotheses on the difference between education in the written, audio-visual and multi-media media.
- Introduction to an evaluation of education in the media in an educational environment, with regard to the impact it has on students, and on the teachers who deliver it.
- Prospective questions on the development of education in the media, and the changes brought about in education.
Methodology
- Lectures.
- Providing students with historical documentation focusing on the development of education in the media in the most innovative countries.
- Individual work consisting of analysis, design, intervention and evaluation of education in the media. The choice of work carried out and presented is a matter for individual students.
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
Assessment will focus on appropriation of the materials taught, on the additional reading and on applied work