Towards an epistemology of media education: confronting the problems of knowledge presented by Social Realism
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Connolly, Steve M.Affiliation
University of BedfordshireIssue Date
2020-04-27
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Recent debates about the status of knowledge in the school curriculum have seen the emergence of attempts to connect curriculum reform to the ideas about "powerful knowledge" articulated by Michael Young and other sociologists. This article argues that for the case of media education, and specifically its application in secondary schools - in the form of Media Studies - these ideas are not adequate to explain the epistemological principles upon which the project of media education is built. The paper takes a threefold approach to developing an epistemology of media education; firstly, by outlining existing work on the nature of knowledge in media education; secondly, by examining social realist arguments about the way that knowledge is manifested in things like school subjects and canonical knowledge and arguing that media education does not fit these manifestations; and finally by offering some alternative ideas upon which an epistemology of media education may be builtCitation
Connolly S (2021) 'Towards an epistemology of media education: confronting the problems of knowledge presented by Social Realism', Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 29 (2), pp.315-329.Publisher
Taylor & Francis (Routledge)Journal
Pedagogy, Culture and SocietyAdditional Links
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14681366.2020.1759129Type
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1468-1366EISSN
1468-1366ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/14681366.2020.1759129
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