Medien und Bildung

All educational professions require a professional approach to media: But what are media? Neutral intermediaries? Or does every medium have its own message? Only which one? Are media instruments in teaching? Or do they create conditions for pedagogical practice? Do media represent reality? Or do they only convey what our minds perceive as reality? Do media shape people—or do they help to educate them? And what consequences do answers to these questions have for teaching? The new book by Prof. Dr Volker Ladenthin, who researched and taught at the Bonn Centre for Teacher Training, University of Bonn, provides answers to these questions.