Media Literacy in Extracurricular Activities of Journalism to Strengthen Civic Education
- DOI
- 10.2991/icei-18.2018.2How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Civic education; Media Literacy; Elementary School; Multicultural
- Abstract
In the 21st century, the millennial generation is the multicultural society. They need space to actualize the value of nation’s character in implementing civic education. Extracurricular activities of journalism can help them develop balanced interest and talent with media literacy program. This research study used a combination of research methods with concurrent embedded strategy model, with a total sample of 27 students who participated in extracurricular activities of journalism at different grade levels in an integrated Islamic elementary school in Surabaya. This media literacy activity has a positive impact on them. The results of the research show the work of media literacy results in the anthology of poetry, comics, short stories and photography which contain portraits of the life of the people they meet and adjusted to their point of view, as many as 21 of 27 children have adaptive behaviors such as respecting their non-Muslim friends and not bullying.
- Copyright
- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Yenik Wahyuningsih AU - Erny Roesminingsih AU - Sri Setyowati PY - 2018/12 DA - 2018/12 TI - Media Literacy in Extracurricular Activities of Journalism to Strengthen Civic Education BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education Innovation (ICEI 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 6 EP - 8 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icei-18.2018.2 DO - 10.2991/icei-18.2018.2 ID - Wahyuningsih2018/12 ER -