ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|14 pages

Starting points

chapter 2|33 pages

Teaching visual literacy

chapter 3|21 pages

Learning about news

chapter 5|25 pages

Representations of reality

chapter 6|8 pages

Media institutions