Using children's media experience in formal media education

The topic of the Bachelor thesis is media education for tweeners. The aim of this thesis is to define the theoretical basis as well as practical recommendations for tweenager media education, which can be applied in both, formal media education by teachers at schools and informal media education by parents at home. This Bachelor thesis has two parts, theoretical and practical, and deals with an interdisciplinary examining of media education in the context of media experience and the way tweenaregs come acroos media at school, at home and in third spaces (in their free time). The aim of this work is to find out how the tweenagers undrestand the media; in what way, where and with whom they come across media; how the media are used by them, how the media are perceived and which personal and educational experiences, risks and benefits the tweenagres associate with media. The theoretical part of the work gathers the information from literature and tries to insight into the field of formal and informal media education and media literacy, the way of realising media education in the Czech Republic, changing form of childhood, children's culture, tweenagers' media experience and positive or negative influence of media. The practical part is based on research proved in the fifth grade of elementary school in Pilsen....