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MIL EDUCATION MODEL OF THE CRITICAL THINKING
DEVELOPMENT

Conceptual basis: the theory of the critical thinking development,
ideological and semiotic theories of media education.

Aims: to develop the critical autonomy of the personality, to teach the
audience to realize how media represent/ rethink the reality, to decode,
critically analyze media texts, to orientate in the information/ideology flow

in modern society.

Objectives:
- teaching the audience about
1) those who are responsible for

the creation of a media text, who own
mass media and control them;

2) how the intended effect is achieved;
3) what values orientations are presented;
4) how it is perceived by the audience -

skills to understand the hidden meaning of a message, to resist the
manipulation of the consciousness of an individual by the media,

evaluate the credibility of the source, etc.