Media Education: Literacy, Learning, and Contemporary Culture

by David Buckingham

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007YWFRVO
• ISBN13: 9780745628301
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent resource for Media Education

This is a wonderful resource for teachers that are trying to understand the history of media education. It discusses the main elements of media literacy and is an easy read.

Buckingham's New Book Hits the spot

David Buckingham knows media education. This new text combines his vast knowledge of how media education SHOULD work in the classroom with practical theory. I think this is one of THE BEST texts available today!What I like about this text are the practical examples he provides from his own work and those who work with him. He is also not afraid to be critical of others who claim THEIR way of teaching media education is the ONLY way. For those of us in the US, this book is the bible; an essential guide for teaching media education and inplementing effective pedagogy. It you are a novice or someone who has been doing media literacy work for some time, you will find this text invaluable. I highly recommend it. You won't be sorry.