196 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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Media Education in the Primary School provides a clear, practical guide for teachers on how to approach media education. The author offers helpful advice on teaching about media institutions, news-gathering and on soaps, comics and advertising. Cross-cirucular classroom activities such as video-work, simulating advertising campaigns and photography are also included. All the activities have been thoroughly tested and are fully compatabile with current National Curriculum requirements.
Introduction The arguments for primary media education 1 Starting points An outline history: from discrimination to demythologising; Research: help or hindrance? Key issues; The identification of a suitable pedagogy; Coda 2 Teaching visual literacy 3 Learning about news 4 Some approaches to teaching about advertising 5 Representations of reality 6 Media institutions, Appendix: Primary media education and the National Curriculum
Biography
Carol Craggs has been a full-time teacher for twenty years and is English Co-ordinator at a school in Nottinghamshire
