media education association

What is the MEA?

MEA is the subject association for everyone who teaches about the media at any level of the 3-19 education system, whether in Early Years/Foundation Stage, primary or secondary schooling, specialist media courses in the 14-19 phase, in informal education, and in teacher training. We also welcome media professionals with an interest in the development of media literacy. From 2010, membership of MEA will be free, involving a simple online registration. We will be rebuilding our website to facilitate dialogue between members and access to ideas, advice and examples of best practice.

MEA is a Company Limited by Guarantee (England and Wales) Registration No 5932760 and a Registered Charity (No 112 1594).

Aims of the MEA

	To try to ensure that the wider public has access to up-to-date and accurate information about media education
	To provide a forum for the views and experiences of those teaching media and to offer a means of addressing their resource needs.
	To disseminate information about educational research and industrial initiatives.
	To provide opportunities for members' personal development through examples of good practice which enhance and promote the teaching and learning of Media Studies.
	To develop reciprocal links with the industry and provide responses to press enquiries about the teaching of media; to involve practitioners from all branches of the media industries in the work of schools.
	To provide conferences, a termly journal, a regular newsletter and further benefits to support the needs of the membership.
	To represent the interests of, and raise the status of, media education and Media Studies as a discipline.
	To promote dialogue between the varied constituencies involved in media education, both across the curriculum areas and across different sectors of education.
	To respond to government initiatives and developments in the media industries and to provide a proactive and coherent voice for media teachers and others participating in current and future educational reform.

MEA Executive Committee

Chair: Cary Bazalgette

Executive committee: Geoff Dean; Jenny Graham; Julian MacDougall; Sarah Mumford; Steve Murray; Nick Potamitis; Mandy Powell; Elaine Scarratt; Deborah Snow; Roy Stafford; Ian Wall

Contact members of the executive committee:

info@mediaedassociation.org.uk