RESEARCH IN MEDIA EDUCATION -- RESEARCH IN MEDIA EDUCATION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- MEDIA EDUCATION: CHANGING ROLES IN CHANGING TIMES -- INTRODUCTION -- EARLY BEGINNINGS: IN POLITICS, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES -- The Instrumental Approach -- The Educational Approach: The Inoculation Paradigm, the Popular Arts Paradigm and the Representational Paradigm -- THE PRESENT: INTERDISCIPLINARY MEDIA EDUCATION AND ITS GROWING IMPORTANCE IN THE WORLD -- Media Education around the World -- The Interdisciplinary Nature of Media Education -- EMERGING THEMES IN MEDIA EDUCATION -- Media Education and Citizenship -- Media Education and Public Health -- Media Education and Consumer Culture -- FUTURE EXPECTATIONS: CROSS-CURRICULAR MEDIA EDUCATION AND THE NEED FOR A SHIFT TOWARDS A PREPARATORY PARADIGM -- New Media Technologies -- Developing Online Sense, Participation and Activism -- Media Education, Changing Curriculum and Teacher Requirements -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- MEDIA LITERACY IN CANADA: TOWARDS THE RESOLUTION OF THE TENSIONS IN MEDIA EDUCATION -- INTRODUCTION -- A CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE ON MEDIA EDUCATION -- ASSESSMENT OF CURRENT PRACTICES -- Methodology -- Survey Results -- MOVING BEYOND MEDIA DECONSTRUCTION -- MEDIA RISK REDUCTION PILOT PROJECT -- Methodology -- Results of Media Risk Reduction Pilot Project -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- WHAT IS MEDIA LITERACY: A STUDY OF TEACHERS' PERCEPTIONS OF MEDIA LITERACY EDUCATION IN TAIWAN -- INTRODUCTION -- The Contexts - Two Driving Forces of Media Education -- Media Environment -- The Education Reform -- Discourses of Media Education: Setting the Framework -- The Global Scenarios of Media Literacy Education -- THE LOCAL CONTEXT: AN ANALYSIS OF THE WHITE PAPER ON MEDIA LITERACY EDUCATION -- RATIONALES, RELEVANT RESEARCH AND THE RESEARCH QUESTIONS -- Rationales -- Relevant Research.

Research Questions and Hypothesis -- Methodology -- Participants and Survey Instrument -- Analysis -- Findings -- Are The Perceptions of 'Protectionist' and 'Liberal' Teachers with Media Information, Culture, and Consumption Different from One Another? -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- THE CHALLENGES OF MEDIA EDUCATION IN COERCIVE SOCIETIES: A CASE STUDY OF MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (MENA) -- INTRODUCTION -- SETTING THE SCENE OF MEDIA EDUCATION IN MENA -- FACTS, STATISTICS AND MEDIA EDUCATION -- SHOWCASE OF DANCING NAKED IN A SWAMP: THE ABU GHARIB TORTURE PHOTOS -- DISCUSSION ABOUT THE SWAMP OF MEDIA EDUCATION IN MENA -- CONCLUSIVE REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- THE PLIGHT OF MEDIA EDUCATION AND RESEARCH IN ARAB HIGHER EDUCATION -- INTRODUCTION -- DEARTH OF QUALIFIED ARAB MEDIA FACULTY -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- EMPOWERING ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP: ASSESSING THE OUTCOMES OF A MEDIA LITERACY COURSE IN A US UNIVERSITY* -- INTRODUCTION: A NOTE ON EDUCATION, INFORMATION, AND CIVIL SOCIETY -- CITIZENSHIP IN A MEDIA AGE -- Methods -- Sample -- Experiment Design -- Procedures -- Measures -- Focus Groups -- The Research Process -- Experimental Group Findings: Students Reflect Skills Attainment -- Focus Group Findings: Students Express Considerable Negativity towards Media -- Why So Negative? -- More Skills, More Negativity: Why a Disconnect? -- Discussion -- CONCLUSION: FUTURE CONSIDERATIONS FOR POST-SECONDARY MEDIA LITERACY EDUCATION -- APPENDIX A - MEDIA LITERACY SKILLS ASSESSMENT TEST OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- A STUDY OF MEDIA EDUCATION IN KINDERGARTENS IN HONG KONG -- INTRODUCTION -- SIGNIFICANCE OF MEDIA EDUCATION: FROM YOUTH PROTECTION TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION -- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MEDIA EDUCATION IN KINDERGARTENS -- EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION IN HONG KONG -- THE STUDY -- DISCUSSION OF SURVEY FINDINGS.

Teachers' Familiarity with Media Education -- THE OBJECTIVES OF MEDIA EDUCATION AND SCHOOLS' WILLINGNESS TO IMPLEMENT -- Obstacles to Implementing Media Education -- Lack of Resources: Teacher Training, Teaching Materials, and Time -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- FROM INSTRUCTION TO REFLECTION: FILM IN EDUCATION IN SWEDEN -- INTRODUCTION -- THE EMERGING DISCOURSE ON SCHOOL CINEMA -- A RESEARCH PROGRAM ON SCHOOL CINEMA -- USING FILM AS EDUCATION -- Film Talk about Visualized Welfare -- Example 1. Visualized slums -- Example 2. Visualized Welfare -- Student Participant Research -- Film Talk about Domestic Violence -- Example 3. Stopping abuse -- Example 4. Why abuse -- Writing a Film Script -- Example 5. Film Script about Bullying -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- TEXTING: A WAY TO LEARN MATERNAL LANGUAGES. A PORTUGUESE CASE STUDY -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Learning with Things that are Close to Us -- 2. Using Txting to Learn -- 3. Conclusions and Discussion -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REERENCES -- DEVELOPMENT OF A FILMMAKING PROGRAM FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS -- 1. CHARACTERISTICS AND COURSE OUTLINES OF THE FILMMAKING PROGRAM -- 1.1. Filmmaking Programs in a Workshop Format -- 1.2. Characteristics of Filmmaking Workshops -- 1.3. Course Flow of the Workshops -- 1.4. Filmmaking Workshop in Tsukuba City -- 2. DEVELOPING AND EVALUATING THE FILMMAKING PROGRAM FOR SCHOOLS -- 2.1. Points to Consider in Developing Filmmaking Programs for Schools -- 2.2. Conducting the Filmmaking Program in Schools -- 2.2.1. Pre-production -- 2.2.2. Production (Filming) -- 2.2.3 Post-production -- 2.3. Evaluating the Filmmaking Program -- 3. MERITS AND FUTURE WORKS OF FILMMAKING WORKSHOP AS A PART OF SOCIAL AND SCHOOL EDUCATION -- 3.1. Merits and Future Works of Filmmaking Workshop as a Part of Social Education -- 3.2. The Merits and Future Works of a Filmmaking Program at School.

3.3. Application to other Methodologies -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.