Media education worldwide

There are media education 'movements' in many countries. In English-speaking countries, Australia and New Zealand are perhaps closest in some ways to the UK experience. In the United States there seems to be more emphasis on aspects of 'media literacy' that aim to 'protect' students from the excesses of media producers. In Europe, there are examples of more formal programmes in the compulsory schools sector, especially in film education in France and elsewhere.

Rather than attempt to define these different approaches, we've selected a small number of websites from around the world.

Australia
Australian Teachers of Media

Canada
Jesuit Communication Project
Media Awareness Network

Europe
media-educ

France
CLEMI (Centre for Links between Teaching and News Media) French language site with English summary

Spain
Grupo Comunicar (Andalucia Collective for Education and Communication) Spanish language site

Switzerland
Cycle d'Orientation French language site with English version of homepage

US
The Just Think Foundation
Center for Media Literacy
Media Education Foundation
Media Literacy Online Project
 


www.MediaEd.org.uk the UK media and moving image education site
Free resources, diary, links and discussion forum for anyone who’s interested in media and moving image education in schools, FE, adult and informal education