Abstract

MOURAO, Marisa  and  PEREIRA, Sara. Radio and Media Education: promotion of a radio communication workshop in a school context. OBS* [online]. 2018, vol.12, n.4, pp.159-177. ISSN 1646-5954.

Since citizenship cannot be thought apart from the role played by the media in society, it is essential to design Media Education strategies that allow the development of competences related to access, critical media analysis and content production. Based on this objective it was developed, in a school context, an action research project focused on the radio and its potential for the promotion of Media Literacy competences. In this context, and based on the Portuguese Media Education Guidance (Pereira et al., 2014) approved by the Ministry of Education, a radio communication workshop was conducted with an 8^th grade class of 23 students from a school in the north of the country. In this action, which took place during 12 classes of Education for Citizenship, the students played an active role in exchanging experiences and knowledge, became aware of the importance of sound and radio, gained knowledge about the radio world and developed communicative and creative production competences. The research project carried out showed the potential of radio communication for promoting Media Literacy and, at the same time, for developing young people’s participation and citizenship competences.

Keywords : Media Literacy; Media Education; radio; teenagers; school.

        · abstract in Portuguese     · text in Portuguese     · Portuguese ( pdf )