Media Education in the Czech Republic
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | This article deals with the cross-curricular subject Media Education realized by teachers of Czech language and literature at upper primary schools. In the Czech Republic, Media Education is a new topic, which has been established as a cross-curricular subject in accordance with the Framework Education Programme for Elementary Education (2007). This state curricular document has been issued by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic. The cross-curricular subject Media Education provides the pupil with elementary knowledge and skills related to media communication and work with the media. Cross-curricular subjects may be used as an integrative part of the educational content of a subject of instruction or in the form of independent subjects of instruction, projects, seminars, courses, etc. This study aims to analyze the most important aspects of realization of this cross-curricular subject by teachers in upper primary schools in the Czech Republic. The partial aims are oriented to finding out the mode of realization and benefits of cross-curricular subject Media Education in the upper primary schools by teachers and survey the use of media in the instruction of Czech language and literature teachers at the realization of Media Education. |