Meta-discourses Between Responsibility and Resistance: Reaching the Aim of Multimodal Learning by Ways of Mediatization Processes

Abstract

There is an increasing need for an extensive change of the mindset of trainee teachers to cope with the demands of modern media education in a creative way. Currently, university training, especially in Germany, cannot guarantee that certified teachers have sufficient competences in the fields of technology, arts and creativity, interpretation, communication theory and economics. Against this background, a teaching and research project has been established, which deals with the question of how far mediatization is a topic in current, award-winning literature for children and adolescents. Responsibility and resistance, as attitudes in dealing with media held by literary protagonists as well as producers and distributors, teachers and all their target groups, are elaborated upon to help future teachers reflect upon mediatization and thus to develop their own attitude towards it.