Joining the Media Education Association

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Download an application form
 

 

What the MEA will offer

• 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 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.
 
 
 
 
 



    Why join the MEA?

    The Media Education Association is a grassroots association – set up by media teachers – with membership open to all who are interested in media education. It exists to promote media education on a national level while also providing support and advice to media educators themselves. Its purpose is to:

    •  support all those working in media education with young people from primary school age through to further education and beyond

    •  promote media literacy across and beyond the formal curriculum

    •  lobby to raise the status of media education and to represent a voice for media and film teachers and others locally, regionally and in the wider community

    What the MEA will offer

    •  A website and online community at www.mediaedassociation.org.uk

    •  A termly journal in the picture (from Spring 2008)

    •  Regular email newsletters

    •  A range of benefits, discounts and preview opportunities

    •  Conferences, regional initiatives and training events