Abstract
Towards a Conceptual Model of Media Education: A Finnish Perspective
Highlights
This paper puts forward the research question: how is media education conceptualized from a Finnish perspective, and within the Nordic context, and what are the various elements of media education and their relationship to one another, as seen from this perspective? The aim of the paper is to contribute towards the theoretical understanding of media education as a concept, as well as provide a holistic, visually illustrated description of media education from a Finnish perspective for students, educators, and policy makers
This paper provided a conceptual framework for understanding, analysing, and discussing media education
It presented a conceptual model of media education with the aim of providing a clear visual representation of media education and its various elements
Summary
The pervasive use of digital media worldwide (Clement, 2019; Miller, Washington, and Miller & Associates, 2015; Poushter, 2016) across a broad demography of people from different age groups and backgrounds has engendered a need for media education, from both a competence perspective (e.g. Hoechsmann & Poyntz, 2012; Kotilainen & ArnoldsGranlund, 2010; Kotilainen & Rantala, 2010; Kupiainen, 2019; Uusitalo, 2010), and a critical perspective (e.g. Ligocki, 2017; Sauerteig, Cervera Gutierrez, Toven-Lindsey & Dahl, 2019). This paper is an endeavour to systematically map and present the various schools of thoughts and theories on the subject and provide not just a comprehensive textual conceptualization of media education and a clear visual representation of those concepts, as viewed from a Finnish perspective. Towards this end, this paper puts forward the research question: how is media education conceptualized from a Finnish perspective, and within the Nordic context, and what are the various elements of media education and their relationship to one another, as seen from this perspective? This paper hopes to contribute to the theoretical discussion surrounding media education and provide a structure for explaining the different aspects of media education and describing their relationships as well as contexts
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