How Rural Schoolchildren and Teachers Read TV Dramas: A Case Study on Critical Media Literacy in Turkey

Urban Education

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 740-763

  Akar Vural, Ruken ^a  

^a ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

critical media literacy; elementary school students; elementary school teachers; mass media; media literacy curriculum in Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955913163     PISSN: 00420859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042085910377289     Document Type: Article

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