Chapter 8
Media education
‘If education is to have any credibility at all, then media education must move from te periphery of the curriculum towards its centre. This movement will, moreover, be paralleled within each subject. For, as more and more information is transmitted via electronic media in every discipline, problems of interpreting this material will attain the kind of significance that reading now has at all curriculum levels.’
Len Masterman, ‘Why teach television’, in Understanding Television (The English Programme, Thames TV, 1983)
THE CURRICULUM
There are so many pressures for change in education at this time, especially in post-14 provision. Since 1983 and the advent of TVEI, especially, this phase of schooling has ...
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