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Makale Özeti:
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The analysis of the conducted questionnaire among teachers of secondary schools showed
that realizing the great importance of the media in the contemporary information society, three
quarters of them support the idea of media education at schools and 58% believe that a new major
for pedagogical institutes needs to be introduced - “Media Education”. Most of teachers justly think
that the combination of the autonomous and integrated media lessons is the most effective way
today for the development of media education in Russia, and therefore - for the increase of media
literacy of the young generation.
However, in spite of the fact that majority of teachers define the aim to develop the critical
thinking of the audience as one of the most important, they significantly overestimate the weight of
“protectionist” approach to media studies today, and on the contrary, undervalue the goals to
develop the democratic thinking of the pupils, their knowledge about theory and history of media
and media culture.
Moreover, despite of the general support of media education ideas (in theory) expressed by
75 % of the teachers, actually only one third of them use some elements of media education at their
lessons (in reality), and one fifth of the group does not integrate it at all.
The hardest obstacle on the way of media education into the Russian classrooms is the
absence of financial motivation, according to the teachers, though to our point of view, last but not
the least is the passive anticipation of the authority’s directives and insufficient level of knowledge
of today’s Russian teachers in terms of the theory and methods of media education.
Thus, the analysis of the teachers’ questionnaire has given us additional proof for the
necessity of the official introduction of the new university-level Major- “Media Education” (namely,
Major, because the homonymous Minor was registered in 2002) and media education courses for
the students of all pedagogical institutes. Only when the media literate graduates of universities
come to work in schools, we will be able to evaluate the position of media education within the
curriculum.
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