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Comunicar Journal 31: To teach the look. Some proposals to teach watching TV (Vol. 16 - 2008)

TV and reality: a proposal for teachers´ training

https://doi.org/10.3916/c31-2008-03-056

Alejandro Martínez-González

Abstract

This paper describes an educational process which enables the participants to a critical analysis of television and its contents. This educational method has been developed at «La Salle» University centre, in a social educators and teachers training course, in the frame of the subject called «Techniques of Social Communication and Advertisement». It is based on a methodology that aims the development and promotion of complex thinking and critical consciousness. Reference to some techniques for the analysis of television in class may also be found.

Keywords

Television, critical analysis, complex thinking, critical consciousness, mass media, education