Study: Media education as theory, research and practice of media education

The courses offered by the Chair of School Education / Media Education are centrally anchored in the teacher training courses at TU Dresden and serve the media education components.

Media education and media literacy in the degree course - what does that mean?

A look at the subject areas and related disciplines illustrates just how diverse issues in media education research and teaching can be:

"Media education encompasses all issues relating to the educational significance of media in the areas of leisure, education and work." (Hüther & Schorb, 2010, p. 265)

Media education is an interdisciplinary educational sub- and cross-sectional discipline (Barberi 2017), which draws on the theories and findings of its related sciences along its so-called native terms (in particular media, education, upbringing, socialization). These include philosophy, sociology, psychology, media studies and communication science, image science, computer science and many more.

Accordingly, media education is to be understood as the theory, research and practice of media education.

"Media education begins [...] where the transfer of information from subject-independent data networks and information systems ends, and where it is a matter of processing and integrating it into one's own life and experience context. The concept of education thus also eliminates the perspective that [...] is characterized by the fact that people ultimately create both their ego and the world in which they move themselves in order to reflectively communicate about it." (Moser, 2010, pp. 314-315)

Media education therefore refers to examining the constitution - the prerequisites, practices, institutions, conditions and restrictions, but also understandings - of media education on a subjective and structural level in order to be able to understand, (co-)shape or change it in a scientifically sound manner.

We understand seminars at the Chair as communities of researchers in which a framework is opened up under specific media education issues in order to deal with phenomena and facts in a scientifically sound manner. Ideally, this is not only done theoretically and empirically, but also leads to didactically sound media productions.