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Volume : II, Issue : VII, August - 2012

Media Literacy Education: Should it be inclusive in the school curriculum

GIRDHAR LAL SHARMA

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

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Media literacy education aims at creating awareness among the individuals about the media to critically analyze, construct and access , create them to effectively encounter the media massages. This study is aimed at preparing a media literacy questionnaire to examine the level of media literacy among the adolescents females and males. Descriptive method using survey as a technique is employed in this empirical study. A selected from the schools of Jaipur metropolitan city limit and the rural are requested to complete the questionnaire. Mean SD, and “t” test an oval are used to analyze the data and to determine the significant differences with regard to the background variables. The rationale and the relevance behind the need for media literacy education in the school curriculum is being discussed.

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    GIRDHAR LAL SHARMA, (2012). Media Literacy Education: Should it be inclusive in the school curriculum. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. VII, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/1263.pdf

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