Media Education in Ukraine

Abstract

In today’s digital reality, media information skills are becoming the key ones for every member of society. Hence, media education is becoming increasingly important. Ukraine has already had some positive achievements in the development of media education. The purpose of this research is to analyze and systematize the experience of media education in Ukraine. There was used a set of research methods: a theoretical method for literature review, identification of criteria for analysis, method of selecting relevant information and interpreting results, method of systematization, and prognostic to outline further prospects for media education and learning in Ukraine. According to the criteria (historical, methodical, prognostic), the activities of five Ukrainian media education centers were singled out and described: the Institute of Social and Political Psychology, the Institute of Higher Education of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv), the Institute of Media Ecology (Lviv), the Academy of Press of Ukraine (Kyiv) and the College of Press and Television (Mykolaiv). The history of their creation, features of development, and implementation of scientific-educational-methodical support were analyzed, the directions of their further activity were outlined. It was found out that all the centers are similar in their media education mission. At the same time, their differences are manifested in the practical implementation of media education. Prospects for further research on media education and learning in the conditions of distance learning were identified.