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Training and capacity building in media and information literacy

This paper is the fourth chapter of the book Public Policies in Media and Information Literacy in Europe with the results and discussions emerging from the ANR project TRANSLIT. Training and capacity building in MIL are examined by looking at the availability of formal, accredited teacher training for MIL across the EU. A comparative analysis of media and information literacy policies in Europe based on the twenty-eight national reports gives the precondition for a cross-country understanding of the frameworks for teacher training and capacity-building. The national reports indicate that in the vast majority of EU member states there is no provision of formal teacher training in MIL, and teachers' pedagogic expertise in these areas is dependent on their own interest in seeking out professional development and the availability of such training in their regional and national context. MIL policies, where they exist across the EU and are linked to education, are often representative of a discursive cultural hybridity attempting to conflate competing socio-political values (social democracy in the digital public sphere and neo-liberal consumerism), and the potential for such a conflicted model to be directly applicable in teacher training and development is minimal.

media and information literacy ; MIL ; training ; capacity building ; media education

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