ABSTRACT
The ‘theoretical problem’ was in fact the way Stephen described his final A-level assignment; and it is the students’ work on this assignment that forms the basis of this penultimate chapter. We would not claim that this work provides a theoretical solution to the problems we have raised-or indeed that there is any single solution. Nevertheless, we would argue that practical media production of the kind we will be considering here offers a distinctive mode of investigation, which should stand alongside the forms of critical analysis considered in the previous chapter. As we have suggested, it is in the dialogue between these different practices that significant learning may occur-although, as we shall indicate, the relationship between ‘theory’ and ‘practice’ is unlikely to be a straightforward one.
