University Students’ Readiness for Teaching Media Competence

Abstract

The article presents some actual experience of introducing media education in modern higher education. The authors present a review of current Russian and foreign publications that consider media education as an important factor in the professional training of present-day university graduates.The article also outlines the main directions for integrating media education in extracurricular activities of contemporary university students, including a wide range of creative and educational activities. All of them are aimed at expanding university students' knowledge about the world of media culture, actualizing their interest in media creation and media education projects. Curricular and extracurricular forms of media education are focused on solving the major task of promoting media competence among young people, which is one of the key vectors for successful exploration of the today's information field, the ability to think analytically, master the argument, strengthen the evidence base of one's own reasoning, include creative amateur media production.

Twentieth Anniversary of the Media Education Journal: Main Trends in Research

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Media Educational Potential of the Television Industry in Improving Media Literacy of Broad Audience

“…It is no use arguing that the democratic society needs qualified journalism, which in its turn needs media literate audience (Ahmed, Ali, 2022;Bender, 2023;Brown et al, 2023;Chelysheva, Mikhaleva, 2023;Loos, Ivan, 2022;Mensah et al, 2023;Savchuk, 2020;Sidorov, Melnik, 2021;Suzina et al, 2020;Vandeyar, 2020). Expectations and requests of the audience define the professionalism of media and its content that is why media competence of broad audience is so important for impartial and socially responsible journalism.…”

Technology of Project Activity in Media Education (On the Example of Training Aspiring Journalists at Kazan Federal University)

“…The theoretical basis of the research is the works on the theory and practice of the project approach in teaching as a whole (Alekseeva, 2021;Avtaeva, 2020;Chelysheva, Mikhaleva, 2023;Kornetov, 2020;Ligai, 2016;Muryukina, Gorbatkova, 2022;Sherstneva, 2019;Zatsepina, 2013 and others) and foreign researchers (Friesem, 2019;Jha, Gangwar, 2020;Lai, 2023), reflecting the historical approach to project activities and substantiating the personal factor of student development in the process of project-based learning. Currently, in the domestic and foreign literature in the theory of question, researchers are actively working on theoretical and practical aspects of the implementation of project-based learning in the educational process, exploring historical trends in the emergence of the project method as an activity-based approach to learning.…”