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Kazakova, O. M. & Ponomarenko, H. V. (2021). Development of media competence of a literature teacher in the context of the activity of institutes of post-graduate pedagogical education. September, 1 (88), 51–60 (ukr).

Summary

The article is devoted to the issue of teacher’s media competence. In particular, the essence of such concepts as media education, media literacy, media awareness, media competence is revealed. Attention is focused on some aspects of this issue in the scientifi and legal fild of Ukraine, including the Concept of the New Ukrainian school, the Concept of media education in Ukraine. Approaches to the media education in Ukraine, its purpose, tasks are determined. The main teacher’s functions that are necessary to develop students’ media competence are indicated. There are contradictions that hinder the implementation of media education in the New Ukrainian School’s learning space (such as inconsistencies between modern society’s requirements for teachers’ activities and the unwillingness of teachers to implement it). The article considers issues of media information literacy, media immunity, ability to reflct and think critically as psychological mechanisms that ensure conscious consumption of media products and self-regulation. The work of the creative group of Literature teachers from Mykolayiv region is presented. The content devoted to media competence development and forms of distance work of this teachers’ group are introduced. There are three aspects: individual (a personal indicator of readiness to develop media education of schoolchildren), general professional which is connected with digital literacy of the media world which, and the subject’s one which related to the specifis of Foreign Literature. The results of input and output diagnostics are given, which demonstrates the effctiveness of mentioned approaches to the teacher’s media competence development.