What are children of different ages capable of understanding about media? How does their learning develop over time? How can their learning about one aspect of media impact upon their learning about other areas? Developing Media Literacy is a succinct introduction to contemporary approaches to media education. Underpinned by the findings of a major research study into children's media literacy, it offers clear accounts of the key areas of the media curriculum, extensive evidence about children's changing cultural experiences, and engaging exploration of effective classroom practice and children's media work. It covers a wide range of media themes and topics such as advertising, horror films, celebrity, news, computer games and popular television and is illustrated throughout by examples of students' media productions. Key issues considered include:
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David Buckingham is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, London University, where he directs the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media. Heis the author, co-author or editor of 25 books, including most recently Beyond Technology (2007), Youth, Identity and Digital Media (2008) and Video Cultures: Media Technology and Amateur Creat
More about David BuckinghamJohn Richmond has a breadth of experience as a classroom English teacher and advisory teacher in London, a local-authority English adviser, an officer on the National Writing Project and the Language in the National Curriculum Project (both in the UK), and a commissioning editor in educational television in the UK and the USA.
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Becky Parry is Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham. She is author of Children, Film and Literacy (Palgrave, 2013).
Cathy Burnett is Professor of Literacy and Education at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She has published widely in the field of literacy and technology and is on the editorial boards for Literacy and Journal of Early Childhood Lit
