Media education in teacher training

Table of contents

    1. Background
    2. Educational policy developments
    3. Situation in Saxony
    4. Situation at the TU Dresden
    5. Projects
      1. Certificate course in media education and media didactics
      2. MeLA - Anchoring holistic media education in teacher training
      3. DiKoLA - Digitalization-related skills in teacher training courses

Background

Today, media are a natural part of the everyday world of children and young people, i.e. they are woven into everyday activities and socialization processes in a variety of ways. Theoretically examining and researching the socialization, development, education and learning processes of children and young people and taking pedagogical action in this regard must therefore always include media education perspectives.

In addition to media education issues, media didactic challenges also play a major role in the design of learning in schools.
Media education and media didactics objectives can be differentiated on an analytical level: Media didactics sees media as a didactic means for the purpose of shaping teaching and learning. Media education, on the other hand, deals with all educational challenges posed by media from an overarching perspective. Particularly in mediatized societies, whose functional logic is no longer conceivable without media, questions of media communication are of central importance for educational processes. In addition to media didactic skills, teachers therefore need media pedagogical knowledge themselves in order to be able to promote a comprehensive understanding of media literacy in their pedagogical work (see Dallmann 2017).
These goals and perspectives often converge at the level of pedagogical practice.

Educational policy developments

In view of the educational challenge posed by mass media in the 1970s and the development of digital media in the 1990s, there were calls not only from academia but also from education policy-makers to make media education a mandatory part of teacher training courses.

Most recently, in its 2016 strategy on "Education in the digital world" , the KMK emphasized that in order to implement media education in schools, it is necessary to make media education a mandatory part of teacher training courses (see KMK 2016, p. 24). As the GMK (Society for Media Education and Communication Culture) also emphasizes, media education encompasses far more than just computer science or "digital" education or media didactic issues (cf. GMK 2018).

From a scientific perspective, concrete proposals for its design are emerging in parallel: in 2017, for example, the Media Education Section of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE) presented an "Orientation framework for the development of curricula for media education degree programs and study components", which sets out and justifies detailed proposals for the appropriate integration of media education and didactic study content (cf. DGfE - Media Education Section 2017).

Situation in Saxony

The Saxon School Act lists media education as a general educational objective (see §1 SächsSchulG). In its 2017 concept for "Media education and digitalization in schools", the Saxon State Ministry of Culture refers to the requirements of the KMK (2016) and also emphasizes the need for mandatory anchoring and examination relevance of media education content in all phases of teacher training (cf. SMK 2017b, p. 25 f.).

Situation at the TU Dresden

Anchoring media education in the teacher training courses at TU Dresden is currently being developed as part of the amendment to LAPO II.

Projects

Certificate course in media education and media didactics

A project was launched at the Chair of Media Education in cooperation with the Chair of Educational Technology in order to provide students on teacher training courses with an appropriate level of media education training: Certificate Course in Media Education and Media Didactics. The course enables students to obtain certification for their optional media education and media didactics training as part of the course. However, the course had to be discontinued in the 2018/19 winter semester due to project funding coming to an end. You can find out more about the content and structure of the course here.

MeLA - Anchoring holistic media education in teacher training

As part of the project, a concept for anchoring holistic media education in teacher training at TU Dresden was developed. More details here.

DiKoLA - Digitalization-related skills in teacher training courses

The aim of the project is to develop a competence framework "Digitization-related competencies of teachers in teacher training courses" and to analyze existing teaching practice using the example of TU Dresden with regard to best practice and existing potential (monitor "Digitization-related competencies in teacher training courses"). More details here.

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