THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDIA EDUCATION IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS: INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL EXPERIENCE

A new direction of education, in a word, education in the field of mass media and communication is media education. The term media education is used in a narrow context as a general cultural component of education. This is in line with the goals of general education. In pedagogy, the words media culture and news culture are also used as synonyms for the word media education. Today, news culture and media literacy are considered very topical issues. The article analyzes in detail the role of the media in the development of media education in secondary schools.