Teacher Training in Media Education: Curriculum and International Experiences

In April 2008, Pérez-Tornero received an urgent commission from UNESCO to draft a textbase to develop a curriculum for teacher training in media and information literacy. There were already some precedents in the shape of previous work carried out by Perez-Tornero for UNESCO. In 2002, in a joint UNESCO and European Commission project, MENTOR, Pérez-Tornero and Tayie led a group of international experts who prepared a media education curriculum for teachers in the Mediterranean area. In 2004, Pérez-Tornero conducted another study for the European Commission, promoting Digital Literacy, in which he stated the need to foster a change in media culture and communication skills for which the training of teachers was crucial. This issue had arisen in another study conducted by the same author, also for the European Commission («Study on Current Trends and Approaches to Media Literacy in Europe») in which teacher training and the development of a curriculum on media information literacy was deemed essential.