Media literacy, curriculum and the rights of the child.

Autor/inn/en	Cannon, Michelle; Connolly, Steve; Parry, Rebecca
Titel	Media literacy, curriculum and the rights of the child.
Quelle	In: Discourse : studies in the cultural politics of education, 43 (2022) 2, S. 322-334 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1469-3739
DOI	10.1080/01596306.2020.1829551
Schlagwörter	Identitätsbildung; Kritisches Denken; Medien; Medienkompetenz; Medienpädagogik; Kind; Lernen; Curriculum; Computerunterstützter Unterricht; Menschenrechte; England; Nordirland
Abstract	Engaging with digital media is part of everyday living for the majority of children, yet opportunities to learn about, through and with media are denied many pupils in compulsory schooling. Whilst Media Studies in the UK is internationally reputed to be well established, changes made to the primary and secondary national curriculum in 2014 included removal of existing media study elements. We demonstrate what is lost by these actions in relation to the United Nations Rights of the Child and, in particular, the right of the child to express identity. We demonstrate how media literacy had previously been included in curriculum, enabling opportunities to address children's rights, and propose that the absence of media education is part of an overall trend of the non-prioritisation of children's rights in England and Northern Ireland. The paper calls for media literacy to be reintroduced into primary and secondary curriculum.
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien \| Georg-Eckert-Institut (GEI), Braunschweig
Update	2023/1