Developing youth’s multicultural perspective within media education
Kim, You Kyung (2018)
2018
Master's Degree Programme in Media Education
Kasvatustieteiden tiedekunta - Faculty of Education
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2018-05-30
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:uta-201807022193
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:uta-201807022193
Tiivistelmä
2015 European immigration crises accelerated the speed of globalization and desperate need of multicultural education. This study attempts to show how we can implement multicultural learning within media education especially in informal and nonlocal settings, including online platforms for youth. To illustrate how global media literacy, within both digital and non-digital context, figures its form regarding cultural learning, this study analyzes youths’ way of perception and their developments toward other cultures by using multi-modal tools.
This study was carried out in an upper secondary school in one of the Top 3 populated cities of Finland. 4-hour-length of cultural lectures using various media tools, movie appreciation, internet surfing, VR (Virtual Reality) tool utilization, and lastly a media content creation serve this study as an empirical case, a generic concept of qualitative action research. The findings indicate that overall session of combining cultural studies to geographical class aided the students to engage in and to develop their media literacy. Moreover, the project gave the participants a chance to rethink concepts of the difference and others. This study implicates the probability of having better efficiency on multicultural education system by using various media contents that are consumed and produced by geographically distant places, compared to the traditional method of learning. Lastly, this study calls for the need of the change of curricular, development of learning materials, change of mindset, and last but not least, a necessity of more study for a sustainable globe.
This study was carried out in an upper secondary school in one of the Top 3 populated cities of Finland. 4-hour-length of cultural lectures using various media tools, movie appreciation, internet surfing, VR (Virtual Reality) tool utilization, and lastly a media content creation serve this study as an empirical case, a generic concept of qualitative action research. The findings indicate that overall session of combining cultural studies to geographical class aided the students to engage in and to develop their media literacy. Moreover, the project gave the participants a chance to rethink concepts of the difference and others. This study implicates the probability of having better efficiency on multicultural education system by using various media contents that are consumed and produced by geographically distant places, compared to the traditional method of learning. Lastly, this study calls for the need of the change of curricular, development of learning materials, change of mindset, and last but not least, a necessity of more study for a sustainable globe.