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- Title: Media Literacy Education in the Social Studies: Teacher Perceptions and Curricular Challenges (Essay)
- Author : Teacher Education Quarterly
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 233 KB
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Introduction Despite the pervasiveness of U.S. media at home and abroad, the U.S. lags behind a number of countries in the study and practice of media literacy education in middle and high schools (Kubey, 2003; Megee, 1997). Media literacy education entails teaching people "to decode, analyze, evaluate and produce communication in a variety of forms" (Aufderheide & Firestone, 1993; Carnegie Council, 1995).