Media Education through Parents: Promotion of Media Competence in the Family between Aspiration and Reality

Media Education is an increasingly significant field of education, because media more and more permeate the everyday life of children and families. Successful media education requires parents who – besides general competence in education – have media competence on their own and adequate knowledge about how children learn media.

Parents’ ideas of media education, practice of media education within the family, potential resistance complicating the realisation of media education guidelines, as well as information demands regarding the topic are the focus of this project which is executed by the Hans Bredow Institute in cooperation with the JFF – Institut für Medienpädagogik in Forschung und Praxis [JFF – Institute for Media Education in Research and Practice] on behalf of the Media Authority North Rhine-Westphalia (LfM). 

Besides a quantitative survey there are qualitative family interviews as well as deepening case studies with parents and children scheduled.

The project duration is 15 months.