Creating a school newspaper as a means to promote media literacy

This dissertation deals with the theme of the school magazines in grammar schools. Specifically, it examines the influence of independent school magazines production on the development of pupils' media literacy. The thesis is divided into two parts - the theoretical one and empirical one. Theoretical part briefly defines the term media literacy, explains the growth in use of the term and describes its anchoring in the Czech educational system. It pays attention to definition of media education in educational documents of the Czech Republic and further talks about possibilities of its inclusion into classes and its expected impacts. It briefly compares media production within guided media education and independent school media production created by pupils itselves. The second part is devoted to the survey carried out by three editorial boards of Pilsen school magazines that emerged from pupils' initiative. It explores functions and processes of magazine running, shows differences in each editorial board, its incentive, goals, author's primary expectations etc. Further, the research analyzes the contributions of school magazines independent work to development of pupils' media literacy. These gains are evaluated in comparison with Other Expected Outputs for Media education in grammar schools. At the..