<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Media and intercultural education are being increasingly recognised as a fundamental competence for teachers of the 21st century. Digital literacy and civic competence are facing several new challenges in response to the intensification of migratory phenomena and the unprecedented spread of fake news, especially among adolescents at risk of social exclusion, but teachers’ professional development is still far from coping with this emerging need. Intercultural understanding and a critical use of media among adolescents have now become primary goals for the promotion of active citizenship. This article intends to provide some recommendations on how to support teachers’ professional development in the field of media and intercultural education. To this purpose, it presents and discusses the results of an action-research project aimed at teachers’ improvement of teaching skills about the media in multicultural public schools. The results are part of a larger European project “Media Education for Equity and Tolerance” (MEET) (Erasmus Plus, KA3), an initiative promoted in 2016–2018 by the University of Florence (Italy).</p></abstract>

Media and intercultural education are being increasingly recognised as a fundamental competence for teachers of the 21st century. Digital literacy and civic competence are facing several new challenges in response to the intensification of migratory phenomena and the unprecedented spread of fake news, especially among adolescents at risk of social exclusion, but teachers’ professional development is still far from coping with this emerging need. Intercultural understanding and a critical use of media among adolescents have now become primary goals for the promotion of active citizenship. This article intends to provide some recommendations on how to support teachers’ professional development in the field of media and intercultural education. To this purpose, it presents and discusses the results of an action-research project aimed at teachers’ improvement of teaching skills about the media in multicultural public schools. The results are part of a larger European project “Media Education for Equity and Tolerance” (MEET) (Erasmus Plus, KA3), an initiative promoted in 2016–2018 by the University of Florence (Italy).

Teachers’ Professional Development on Media and Intercultural Education. Results from some participatory research in Europe

Research on Education and Media

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Media and intercultural education are being increasingly recognised as a fundamental competence for teachers of the 21st century. Digital literacy and civic...

Teachers’ Professional Development on Media and Intercultural Education. Results from some participatory research in Europe

Published Online: Dec 26, 2019

Page range: 110 - 120

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rem-2019-0015

Keywords
media literacy education, intercultural education, teacher training, secondary school, European programmes

© 2019 Maria Ranieri et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Teachers’ Professional Development on Media and Intercultural Education. Results from some participatory research in Europe

Published Online: Dec 26, 2019

Page range: 110 - 120

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rem-2019-0015

Keywordsmedia literacy education, intercultural education, teacher training, secondary school, European programmes

© 2019 Maria Ranieri et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
media literacy education, intercultural education, teacher training, secondary school, European programmes