Media Education Summit 2014 in Prague
November 20/21 2014, Prague The Centre for Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP) and Metropolitan university Prague (MUP) organised the International Media Education Summit for academics and practitioners that took place at the Goethe Institut in Prague on November 20/21 2014. The summit was held in English.The summit brought together a global network of media educators, scholars and researchers to share research, pedagogy and innovation on all aspects of media education, media literacies and media in education and research.
Keynote addresses were confirmed from Renee Hobbs (Media Education Lab), Divina Frau-Meigs (University Sorbonne Nouvelle), Lutz Hachmeister (Institute for Media and Communication Policy), Andrew Burn (Institute of Education) and Paul Mihailidis (Emerson College).
Co-organiser, Jan Jirak, from the Metropolitan University of Prague, commented that, until now all of the CEMP summits have taken place in England – “This is the first time the summit has been abroad. It is a great honour for us that they chose the Czech Republic, and that they invited the Goethe Institut and Metropolitan University to co-organise the event”, he said.
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