Media Education and Brazilian Educational Policies for the Enhancement of Learning

Bujokas-de Siqueira, Alexandra and Rothberg, Danilo Media Education and Brazilian Educational Policies for the Enhancement of Learning. Comunicar, 2014, vol. 22, n. 43, pp. 113-122. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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English abstract

As media education concepts and practices have been disseminated and strengthened in European countries and Americas, the policies responsible for that expansion remain little known, particularly in countries where the achievements have been recently noted. That is the case for Brazil, where there have been new opportunities for media education, considered as a valuable resource to help accomplish goals of the educational system. This paper looks into the contribution of media education to the enhancement of teaching and learning in the context of innovations brought by recent policies of the Brazilian Ministry of Education. After educational reform programmes which brought the opportunity for emerging fields such as media education, we produced teaching material and conducted a series of workshops with students and teachers from state secondary schools. By reading and producing multimedia information about local public services available to young people, pupils learned about democracy, citizenship, civic engagement, media language, and identity. Lessons from our experiment are discussed against the backdrop of education policies being implemented to ameliorate harsh conditions resulting from the recent economic crisis. We suggest that media education can help by creating a learning environment in which the students become aware of the value of educational attainments.

Spanish abstract

Los conceptos y prácticas de educación en medios se han diseminado cada vez más en países europeos y americanos. Las políticas responsables de su expansión son aún poco conocidas, en particular en países donde sus realizaciones solo han sido percibidas recientemente. Así es el caso de Brasil, donde han surgido nuevas oportunidades de educación en medios. Este trabajo examina la contribución de la educación en medios para la mejora de la enseñanza y del aprendizaje en el marco de las innovaciones aportadas por las recientes políticas del Ministerio de Educación de Brasil. Tras los programas de reforma educativa, se tuvo la oportunidad de introducir campos emergentes como la alfabetización mediática, con la producción de materiales para la enseñanza y la realización de una serie de talleres con alumnos y profesores de las escuelas secundarias públicas. Mediante la lectura y producción de información multimedia, sobre los servicios públicos locales disponibles para los jóvenes, los estudiantes reflexionaron de forma sistemática sobre democracia, ciudadanía, participación cívica, comunicación e identidad. Estas innovaciones tienen cabida en el contexto de las políticas educativas que se están implementando para mejorar las duras condiciones establecidas en un pasado reciente por la crisis económica. En esta propuesta, abogamos por que la educación en medios ayude a la creación de ambientes de aprendizaje favorecedores para que los alumnos tomen conciencia del valor de los logros educativos.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Media education, public policies, digital inclusion, teachers training, media literacy, multimodality, education policies
Subjects: C. Users, literacy and reading.
Depositing user: Alex Ruiz
Date deposited: 21 Jul 2014 12:26
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:32
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/23385

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