austraLasia #2652 A bridge between Europe and China
ZHEJIANG, TRENT: 31 May 2010 -- Amongst the books that have come
across the desk recently, one title reads Media education Sans
Frontiers, published both by Zhejiang University Press, China, and
Edizioni Centro Studi Erickson, Trent, Italy. The Editors are Xiaozhou
Xu, Gianna Cappello and Carlo Socol. One of those will be
certainly known to our readers.
The book, subtitled 'Common challenges, shared
solutions for China and Italy', results from a China-Italy Symposium on
Youth Learning and the Media hosted by the College of education,
Zhejiang University, the Culture Office of the Consulate General of
Italy in Shanghai amongst other bodies. The event took place in March
2008.
In their concluding comment on the symposium, also
added as a final comment on the collection of papers which make up the
book, Gianni Cappello and Carlo Socol concluded that despite obvious
differences and even very different expectations from the Chinese and
Italian participants, "we felt that a sense of unity was growing, that
new spaces for future common action and reflection were opening up
ahead of us".
Much of the agenda on questions of Media Education
has already been set by the Italian side, which has a developed
expertise in the field. But the two commentators saw that Media
Education developed in China would have a distinctive Chinese feel to
it and that the real question underlying its purpose and its potential
in any setting is that of how one builds a modern society without first
or concomitantly building mature and responsible citizens. "Media
education could be a way, if not the answer...".
The symposium has resulted in proposal of joint
research projects, mostly comparative studies and the possibility of a
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