Media Education – A Global Strategy for Development.

Author: Buckingham, David
Published: Seville, 2002
Source: UNESCO: Youth Media Education. The Seville Seminar, Feb. 2002.
Publisher: UNESCO

Abstract

In this paper, Buckingham stresses the importance of providing media education for children and adolescents in the context of technological developments and globalisation. He first provides an overview of the developments in global media education and then creates a strategy for developing media education internationally. It is Buckingham’s intention to encourage global communication and interaction between various regions. He also suggests some general parameters for future action in media education.

Buckingham, David

David Buckingham, born in 1954, is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, where he directs the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media (http://www.ccsonline.org.uk/mediacentre). He has directed several major research projects on young people's relationships with the media and on media education, funded by organisations such as the Economic and Social Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Board, the European Commission, the Arts Council of England, the Broadcasting Standards Commission, and the Spencer, Gulbenkian and Nuffield Foundations. He is the author or editor of fifteen books, including Children Talking Television (1993), Moving Images (1996), The Making of Citizens (2000). After the Death of Childhood (2000) and Media Education (2003). He has published more than 120 book chapters and articles in academic and professional journals. His latest publication is Media Education: Learning, Literacy and Contemporary Culture (2003).