The Significance Of Media Education : Current Realities And Future Possibilities

Abstract

The foregoing chapters examine the development and implementation of media education in various Asian societies and identify the themes and issues that have arisen in the process. As we have seen, there is considerable variation among Asian societies in terms of the level of development of media education, the degree to which it is integrated across the curriculum, and more generally, the social, economic, educational and political circumstances relevant to its implementation. Such diversity certainly calls for each society to face its own unique challenges and find solutions for itself. Nevertheless, the author believes that there is also a common set of issues and questions that will continue to dominate the field for years to come and which deserves serious attention among media educators both in Asia and beyond. This remaining chapter explores these issues in broad outline, in the hope that they may stimulate debate and further research.