Broad tasks – narrow thinking
What limits Medienbildung in teacher education
Vortrag in der Arbeitsgruppe “Bildung zwischen Virtualität und Humanität“
Media education is unquestionably an important cross-sectional topic and is structurally embedded in the curricula of our schools. Media education is also being taken up more and more in teacher training, but here we often see a narrow form of implementation compared to approaches that formulate a broad understanding of media education. The funnel model (Kernbach 2025) of the “Konstitution und Exklusion von Themenfeldern der Medienbildung” (consititution and exclusion of thematic aspects of media education), which is based on empirical data on the media education-related needs of teachers, can give important insights into which initial prejudices and blinders may have to be adressed in teacher training, in order to allow teachers to access their experiences and knowledge (which they often do not frame as belonging to “media education”).