Universidade de Tampere sediará Conferência Internacional Media Education Futures

Nos dias 8 e 9 de maio acontecerá a Conferência Internacional Media Education Futures 2014 na Universidade de Tampere, na Finlândia. O evento é organizado pela Escola de Comunicação, Mídia e Teatro (www.uta.fi/cmt) e pela Escola de Educação (www.uta.fi/edu). Abaixo, informações oficiais do site da conferência.

"The International Conference on Media Education Futures 2014 examines media literacies and education from various perspectives. The conference highlights participation, well-being and citizenships as the current Nordic perspectives in media education and, discusses media and information literacies contributing to intercultural dialogue. The goal is to display and promote research in the field along with the practices of media education. 

The conference is aimed at international researchers in the field, as well as national and international organizations and actors in European and global fields of media education". 

Wednesday 7.5.2014

10h - 16h Preconference Phd Workshop

Thursday 8.5.2014

9h - 10h  Registration and coffee  
10h - 10h30  Opening speech
10h30 - 11h30  Keynote speaker Divina Frau-Meigs, Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, France
11h30 - 12h30  Keynote speaker Johanna Sumiala, University of Helsinki, Finland 
12h30 - 13h30  Lunch
13h30 - 16h  Parallel abstract presentation sessions / workshops

Session titles

- Children, school and media education
- Media and Information Literacies, 21’st Century Skills
- Policy, Politics, Method
- Concept, Evaluation, Skills, Competence
- Intercultural education and international perspectives to media education

- Workshop by Plan Finland
"The Convention on the Rights of Children and Media Education" (by prior registration, maximum 20 participants)
- Working group by The Finnish Society on Media Education (held in Finnish)

"Alueellisen mediakasvatuksen innovaatioita" / "Innovations of Regional Media Education"

- Roundtable Meeting for Media Education Master Programs, organized in cooperation with IHECS (Brussels - Belgium)

18.00 City of Tampere Reception (wine and snacks) at Museum Centre Vapriikki

(address: Tampella, Alaverstaanraitti 5)

Friday 9.5.2014

9h - 9h30   Coffee

9h30 - 10h30  Keynote speaker Pål Aarsand, Norwegian university of science and technology, Norway

10h30 - 11h30  Keynote speaker Li Xiguang, Tsinghua University, China
11h30 - 12h30  Lunch
12h30 - 13h30  Panel discussion: "Futures of Media Education"
13h30 - 13h45  Closing words

Information: http://www.uta.fi/cmt/mediaeducationfutures/index.html