Practice-Oriented Media Education Research: Approaches For An Empirical Change Of Perspective And A Stronger Convergence Of Media Education And Media Didactics

Abstract

Today, media education and media didactics are diverging in disciplinary terms. In this context, "learning about media" and "learning with media" need not be opposites. However, a stronger convergence would require an empirical change of perspective. In German-language media education, there is a glaring lack of studies on media education practice and its effects. Possibilities for experimental and experimental media pedagogical research are presented and possible implications for media pedagogical theory building are discussed.