This book examines recent changes in media education and in youngpeople’s lives, and provides an accessible set of principleson which the media curriculum should be based, with a clearrationale for pedagogic practice. David Buckingham is one of the leading international experts inthe field - he has more than twenty years’ experience inmedia education as a teacher and researcher.This book takes account of recent changes both in the media andin young people’s lives, and provides an accessible andcogent set of principles on which the media curriculum should bebased.Introduces the aims and methods of media education or 'medialiteracy'.Includes descriptions of teaching strategies and summaries ofrelevant research on classroom practice.Covers issues relating to contemporary social, political andtechnological developments.