Some aspects of teaching media literacy to pre-school children in Slovenia from a perception standpoint of teachers and parents

Abstract

This paper deals with media literacy as a multidimensional skill that parents and teachers possess. In this context we warn of the media-technical aspect of this skill and, within this aspect, of parents' and teachers' opinion on the presence of media in children's lives. Following that, the paper explores teachers' media-didactic competence as a component of educators' media literacy. In the empiric part we used two aspects of fostering media literacy. One is the media-technical competence of parents and educators, while the other is the media-didactic competence of educators. We found that both parents and teachers believe that media have a strong presence in everyday lives of pre-school children and that they play an important role in teaching pre-school children. Teachers are aware of the importance of early teaching with media, for media and about media with the purpose of developing children's media literacy, so they will not be afraid of media when they grow up.

Keywords

vzgoja in izobraževanje;predšolska vzgoja;vrtci;starši;vzgojitelji;medijsko opismenjevanje;mediji;ne zaključna dela;education;pre-school education;kindergarten;parents;pre-school teachers;media;media literacy;

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Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2011
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:	UM PEF - Faculty of Education
UDC:	373.23
COBISS:	18847496
ISSN:	2065-1430
Views:	2270
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Other data

Secondary language:	Slovenian
Secondary keywords:	Predšolska vzgoja;
URN:	URN:SI:UM:
Type (COBISS):	Article
Pages:	str. 69-78
Volume:	ǂVol. ǂ4
Issue:	ǂno. ǂ2/3
Chronology:	2011
ID:	8723806