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Comunicar Journal 28: Media Education in Europe (Vol. 14 - 2007)

Media education in the UK

https://doi.org/10.3916/C28-2007-03

Cary Bazalgette

Abstract

Education about the media has been developing in the UK for at least 40 years. Various accounts of that history can be found elsewhere; this paper will just attempt to sketch out key features of the current scene, and to point readers to sources of more substantial information. Given that I work for the British Film Institute, a key player in this field, there is bound to be some bias in this account towards the BFI’s perspective: my defence is that, as every media educator knows, no account is ever completely unbiased.

Keywords

Media education, projects, institutions, training, future

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