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THE DEBATES
A commonly asked question - Media literacy education at
school level in a cross-curricular way, or as a separate
course of media ?
According to Hartai when integrated into other subjects in a
cross-curricular form, “media education is deprived of its
focus and loses its priority concerning its contents”.
According to Küter‐Luks media education should be
implemented for as a cross-curricular way for students aged
9-12 years old, in the period between childhood and
adolescence.
Media education is not taught as a separate and independent
mandatory school subject in any EU country. Instead, where
it exists at all, it is predominately cross-curricular and
integral, or modular. As of 2014, most EU Member States had
not yet adopted a media education curriculum, and schools
largely had autonomy in their decisions about media literacy
education practices.
