Advocacy

We advocate to ensure that the evidence and outcomes of moving image education activity are recognized and incorporated in statutory provision and funding. Recent presentations about advocacy are listed below.

"Whatever Next? Media Learning 1972 and 2008" (PDF, 85kb)

Cary Bazalgette's keynote presentation to the bfi Media Studies Conference on 5 July 2006, covered a number of topics including the high profile that media literacy now has in the curriculum.

Media Literacy for All? (PDF, 40kb)

Paper presented at Westminster Media Forum in October 2005 calling for media literacy to be taught in schools.

Making Movies Matter (PDF, 895kb)

Proposals to create a more informed and cine-literate population through long-term investment in moving image education are in this 1999 report by the Film Education Working Group.

Response to the Cultural Commission for Scotland's public consultation (PDF, 35kb)

We argue for moving image media to be recognized and valued as part of Scotland's national culture.

Media Education Around the World: Three Notes of Caution (PDF, 19kb)

Calls for better evidence about the learning outcomes of media education; support for media education as an entitlement for all; and caution about whose interests are being served by funding.

Where Next for Media Studies? (PDF, 67kb)

Looks at media teaching in the light of Government interest in encouraging teachers' "informed professionalism".

Media Education: Six Challenges (PDF, 56kb)

Questions the credibility, objectives, natural allies, effective starting points, essential elements and long term aspirations of media education initiatives at a national level.

The Children are Watching (PDF, 62kb)

We make the case for learning about moving image media to be included in primary school literacy programmes.

Getting the Message Across (PDF, 62kb)

Describes media teaching at different levels and the UK experience of trying to push media education up the policy agenda.