Table of Contents
Issue #2 as well as supplement added at the end.
Communication Research Trends:
New Approaches to Media Education
vol. 3 no. 2 1982
Research Trends in Religious Communication:
Media Education: The Way to TV Stewardship
vol. 3 no. 2 1982
Abstract
There is increasing consensus among educators around the world that some form of education for the use of the public media - especially television - should be an integral part of the primary and secondary school education.
Teachers are daily experiencing the fact that one of the major cultural influences forming the imagination of their students is the often long hours watching television. Sometimes television is a more important 'educational experience' than the school. Too often, however, the school, family life and the· television set are three mutually antagonistic or indifferent poles that leave young people drifting in a no man's land.
In the field of media education - as in any relatively new field - there are widely differing positions regarding how the school experience and the media experience can be brought together. For example, some would advocate a two-year media studies course as part of the regular school curriculum. Others think that classroom instruction has little influence over what young people think and do when actually watching television with the family or group of friends. Some suggest that the emphasis on media education is too narrow and that the subject should be communication education.
This issue reviews positions in the debate on a country by country basis. The article on Directions for Research summarises what seem to be the emerging points of agreement.
Recommended Citation
(1982)
"New Approaches to Media Education,"
Communication Research Trends: Vol. 3:
No.
2, Article 1.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/crt/vol3/iss2/1
