Worldview literacy in complementing Media Education

The aim of this paper is to suggest how media literacy might be developed if worldview literacy is added as a needed complementarity. How do we promote more positive encounters among people of differing perspectives in today's diverse media world where there are disagreements not only about the...

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Autores: Rautionmaa, Heidi|||0009-0007-0341-9818, Varis, Tapio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:323818
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/323818
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/analisi.3786
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Educació mediàtica
Alfabetització mediàtica
Alfabetització en visió
Diàleg
Media education
Media literacy
Worldview literacy
Dialogue
Educación mediática
Alfabetización mediática
Alfabetización en visión
Diálogo
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Sumario:The aim of this paper is to suggest how media literacy might be developed if worldview literacy is added as a needed complementarity. How do we promote more positive encounters among people of differing perspectives in today's diverse media world where there are disagreements not only about the Ultimate Truth but also about basic facts of news? Worldview literacy education should be an integral part of media literacy training. Beyond understanding how media content is constructed and what purposes it serves, combining media literacy with worldview literacy can support complexity awareness and enable a more effective transformational learning process toward a more just world. In a polarizing society, disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation in the media, as well as populism and hate speech, also target religions and worldviews (Valaskivi et al., 2023). These different literacies together are important for gaining powerful knowledge that means systematically conceptual understanding which enables the student's worldview to expand and to enlarge the mind. Even though human beings are not necessarily peaceful they are still capable of making peace which has been the UNESCO objective of building peace in the minds of men and women.