Svetla Tsankova, Stella Angova, Maria Nikolova,
Ivan Valchanov, Iliya Valkov, Georgi Minev
University of National and World Economy
https://doi.org/10.53656/ped2023-3.03
Abstract. Media literacy is one of the key competencies and skills for living and
working in the 21st century. Media literacy training is a life-long process, but it is
of particular importance that it starts from early childhood, is continued and built
on in secondary and higher education with the efforts of all formal and informal
institutions and organizations. The research team from the Department of “Media
and Public Communications” at the University of National and World Economy
has been working on the project dedicated to media literacy training practices in
secondary and higher schools in Bulgaria for three years. An important part of the
research was the analysis of the results of the survey among teachers, conducted
in the period 07.01.2022 – 23.02.2022 via the Microsoft Forms platform, in which
534 respondents participated. The survey showed that teachers understand the
importance and significance of media literacy, integrate important related topics
in the learning process of various school subjects, but also need to improve their
qualifications for teaching media literacy.
Keywords: media literacy; teachers; secondary education; pedagogy
