Podgorica, (MINA) – Media literacy could be introduced to schools as a cross-curriculum teaching topics, the Bureau for Education Services stated, adding that this initiative can be introduced by professional associations, media outlets, NGOs and schools themselves.
Media literacy has being studied as an elective subject in several Montenegrins school since 2011. According to the data by the Ministry of Education, 64 students chose this subject as an elective subject in the grammar schools in Bar, Budva, Cetinje, Mojkovac and Tivat during the past school year.
Radoje Novovic of the Bureau said that it is not possible to introduce media literacy as a part of school curriculums, but that it is not bad to consider introducing it as a cross-curriculum teaching topic.
Novovic told Mina that it would not be bad for all interested parties to initiate such a proposal, which the Bureau is ready to consider, since introduction of a new school subject to the curriculum, according to him, is impossible at the moment.
Asked within which subjects media literacy could be studied, Novovic responded that interesting media contents could enrich almost every subject.
Professor Bozena Jelusic however believes that in the Montenegrin situation it is the cheapest and the fastest solution to introduce media literacy into curriculums of all high schools, not only of the grammar schools.
She told Mina that media literacy helps integrating school, family and everyday life.
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