Empowering Communities with Media Literacy
The Critical Role of Young Children
©2023
Textbook
XVI,
228 Pages
Series:
Minding the Media, Volume 19
Summary
This book details the project "Digital Citizenship Education for Democratic Participation" involving approximately 400 pre-school and primary school children, their families, teachers, and community members in a Lisbon locality. The research presented aims to answer the following question: To what extent can a local (and replicable) digital media literacy program empower preschool and primary-school-aged children to become active and effective citizens in the digital era? Through this book, the authors share the steps taken during the project, including the main difficulties faced and the solutions found to overcome them as well as the project’s sustainability.
Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the authors
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Empowering Digital Citizens
- Chapter 3 Want a Community Project? Dive in the Context First!
- Chapter 4 Preparing Teachers to Work with the Greater Community
- Chapter 5 The Community in Action – From Printed School Newspaper to Video News Services
- Chapter 6 A Never Ending Project
- Chapter 7 Lessons Learned and Moving Forward
- Appendix A: Workshop Sheet of the “Digital Citizenship Academy” Project
- Appendix B: STEAM/Media Literacy Workshop – structure of the final report
- Appendix C: Workshop evaluation form for preschool children_A
- Appendix D: Workshop evaluation form for preschool children_B
- Appendix E: Workshop evaluation form to be filled out by primary school children
- Appendix F: Workshop evaluation form to be filled out by teachers
- Appendix G: Initial questionnaire for parents
- Appendix H: Initial questionnaire for teachers
- Index
- Series Index
Foreword
I was delighted to be invited to write the foreword to this book. I have been aware of the innovative research that Vitor Tomé, his colleague Belinha De Abreu and his collaborators have been undertaking for some years and am pleased that the outcomes of this exciting project are now being shared in these pages. It is my view that the ‘Digital Citizenship Academy’ project offers a number of important insights into how schooling can be transformed in the 21st century, insights which are outlined below.
Details
- Pages
- XVI, 228
- Publication Year
- 2023
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781433195068
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781433195075
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781433195099
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781433195082
- DOI
- 10.3726/b19399
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2022 (November)
- Keywords
- digital citizenship community-based action research projects media education teacher preparation in-service teacher training school journalism STEM and Arts Vitor Tomé Belinha S. De Abreu Empowering Communities with Media Literacy The Critical Role of Young Children Media literacy
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Oxford, Wien, 2023. XVI, 228 pp., 34 b/w ill., 23 tables.
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