Media Literacy Education

Digital culture offers different relationships with media to the ones that have existed earlier. Globally, enhancing media literacy is related to aspects of Human Rights, especially to the Rights of the Child. During recent years, there have been important policy efforts for developing media literacy education around the world.

This publication belongs to an effort bringing the Nordic studies on media literacy education in a global sight. Current definitions of media literacy and evaluations of educational case studies are presented in the form of thirteen articles written by Nordic academic experts. The articles present, for example, discussions on media literacies in a historical and cultural context and the construction of media literacy as a civic competence. Moreover, texts on educational case studies discuss instructional issues but deal with classroom research and curricular issues as well.

This book in published in cooperation with the Finnish Society on Media Education.

Content

Introduction. Insights to Nordic Research on Media Literacies
Sirkku Kotilainen, Sol-Britt Arnolds-Granlund

Part I. Children, Young People and Media Literacies

Media Literacy and Education. The Past, Present and Future
Ola Erstad

Children and Young People in a Changing Media Environment: Some Challenges
Ingunn Hagen

Conceptual Considerations in Media Education
Sol-Britt Arnolds-Granlund

Media Literacy as a Focal Practice
Reijo Kupiainen, Sara Sintonen

Constructing Media Literacy as a Civic Competence
Niina Uusitalo

Part II. Media Literacy Education – Developments in the Nordic Countries

Civic Media Education Supports a Public Voice for Youths
Sirkku Kotilainen, Leena Rantala

Mapping Filmmaking across Contexts. Portraits of Four Young Filmmakers in Scandinavia
Øystein Gilje, Lisbeth Frølunde, Fredrik Lindstrand, Lisa Öhman-Gullberg

Media Education – Between Theory and Practice
Ole Christensen, Birgitte Tufte

Creativity in Media Education. Merging Different Mindsets
Stefán Jökulsson

Media Literacy in the Estonian National Curriculum
Kadri Ugur, Halliki Harro-Loit

Teachers Using an Expanded Text Concept and Media Pedagogy for Children with Dyslexia
Karin Forsling

Finnish Media Education and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. What Did We Learn on the Crossing Borders Project?
Mari Maasilta

Global Mediagraphy. A Teaching Method in Media Education
Soilikki Vettenranta

Final Words

Future Sights: International Media Literacy Education. A Nordic Viewpoint
Per Lundgren

The Authors