Abstract
In 2006, I was teaching in a large and successful comprehensive school on the edge of London, when I had what alcoholics call ‘a moment of clarity’. Media education was very strong in the school, with a significant proportion of the school’s 2000-strong student body doing GCSE, A-Level and BTEC courses in media studies, film studies and media production. There was a strong extra-curricular media programme, and the school sent a good number of students to excellent media and film courses at universities such as Leeds, Westminster, Sussex, Kent and Warwick. I had been involved in instigating a lot of this development, having been the school’s first Head of Media and, subsequently, Head of Arts and Media Faculty. And yet, something was missing — both for me personally and the school.
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Connolly, S. (2013). Media Education: A Tool for Social Inclusion. In: Fraser, P., Wardle, J. (eds) Current Perspectives in Media Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137300218_4
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