Cannon, M., Connolly, S. and Parry, R. orcid.org/0000-0003-0106-6346 (2022) Media literacy, curriculum and the rights of the child. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 43 (2). pp. 322-334. ISSN 0159-6306
Abstract
Engaging with digital media is part of everyday living for the majority of children, yet opportunities to learn about, through and with media are denied many pupils in compulsory schooling. Whilst Media Studies in the UK is internationally reputed to be well established, changes made to the primary and secondary national curriculum in 2014 included removal of existing media study elements. We demonstrate what is lost by these actions in relation to the United Nations Rights of the Child and, in particular, the right of the child to express identity. We demonstrate how media literacy had previously been included in curriculum, enabling opportunities to address children’s rights, and propose that the absence of media education is part of an overall trend of the non-prioritisation of children’s rights in England and Northern Ireland. The paper calls for media literacy to be reintroduced into primary and secondary curriculum.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Discourse. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Children’s rights; identity; media literacy; criticality |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Education (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 16 Oct 2020 07:03 |
Last Modified: | 12 Apr 2022 09:03 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/01596306.2020.1829551 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:166768 |