Should Media Studies have a bigger role within the KS3 Curriculum
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"Should Media Studies have a bigger role within the KS3 Curriculum?"
Rationale for Scheme of Work
The lessons contained within this scheme of work are ways of exploring media texts through the English curriculum at Key Stage 3. Magazines or indeed, any printed form of media text can provide teachers with an invaluable learning tool. This is because they offer opportunities for learning by introducing pupils to concepts that are a major requirement of both the National Curriculum and National Framework. However, as this account hopes to reveal, the National Curriculum does not implement the study of media as a core subject - even though it includes aspects of other core subjects such as English and Information Technology.
Literature is one of humanity's deepest rivers of continuity, in that it connects each new generation to its predecessors, and, by developing one's understanding of its essence, students can gather the knowledge and skills that help to bring the world alive. Why is it then, that one of today's most important texts 'media' remains unworthy of implementation by the National Curriculum body?
It can be seen that all students of media can benefit in several ways. For instance, it provides the opportunity to think, value and discriminate; to feel and become sensitive to the aesthetic qualities of life; and more importantly, it encourages students to demonstrate mature attitudes and positive values because of experiences common to all walks of society. Media is, therefore, an area of education that has the capacity to include all students; whether they come from the inner cities or ethnic minorities; media study can assist the student in his/her own personal understanding of life, as well as their own development of positive attitudes and keener insights towards others in what is fast becoming the global community...