Towards 'creative media literacy'
Authors: Connolly, S. and Readman, M.
Pages: 245-259
ISBN: 9781138645493
DOI: 10.4324/9781315628110
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/29583/
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Towards 'creative media literacy'
Authors: Connolly, S. and Readman, M.
Editors: De Abreu, B.S., Mihailidis, P., Lee, A.Y.L., Melki, J. and McDougall, J.
Publisher: Routledge
Abstract:In this chapter, perhaps counterintuitively, we begin by challenging the orthodoxies of two key terms in media education (creativity and literacy) and then suggest that by bringing them together in a new way we can provide a framework for media production work that is critical, reflective and student-centred. We understand that production work takes place in a variety of educational contexts, some of which are explicitly vocational, but we suggest here that, if claims for production work are to be made as part of a wider project of literacy, some of the assumptions about the affordances of such work must be addressed and subjected to scrutiny. We propose, ultimately, the concept of ‘creative media literacy’ – a critically oriented set of attributes with which students practise a systematic interrogation of their own productive processes and the meanings attributed to them. Through a philosophically grounded critical framework and examples of pedagogic practice drawn from a three year study of student production work we show how creative media literacy can be recognised, developed and how the conditions of possibility for its emergence may be created.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/29583/
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Towards 'creative media literacy'
Authors: Connolly, S. and Readman, M.
Editors: De Abreu, B.S., Mihailidis, P., Lee, A.Y.L., Melki, J. and McDougall, J.
Publisher: Routledge
Place of Publication: Abingdon, UK
ISBN: 9781138645493
Abstract:In this chapter, perhaps counterintuitively, we begin by challenging the orthodoxies of two key terms in media education (creativity and literacy) and then suggest that by bringing them together in a new way we can provide a framework for media production work that is critical, reflective and student-centred. We understand that production work takes place in a variety of educational contexts, some of which are explicitly vocational, but we suggest here that, if claims for production work are to be made as part of a wider project of literacy, some of the assumptions about the affordances of such work must be addressed and subjected to scrutiny. We propose, ultimately, the concept of ‘creative media literacy’ – a critically oriented set of attributes with which students practise a systematic interrogation of their own productive processes and the meanings attributed to them. Through a philosophically grounded critical framework and examples of pedagogic practice drawn from a three year study of student production work we show how creative media literacy can be recognised, developed and how the conditions of possibility for its emergence may be created.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/29583/
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