Abstract
I am writing this chapter towards the end of 2012, two and a half years into a coalition government of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, fronted by a Minister for Education primarily interested in diversifying the model of state education into many separate components. This chapter will discuss the barriers media educators face in gaining access to initial teacher education. These manifest in a variety of ways through a lack of provision in courses, in financial support and through the potential status of a qualification. Equally, it will pay attention to some of the possibilities for media educators in alternative models of learning and support. Some of the policy referred to could easily have changed at the point of publication, and readers here should note that education policy in the UK is subject to rapid and continuous change.
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Domaille, K. (2013). Educating Media Educators. In: Fraser, P., Wardle, J. (eds) Current Perspectives in Media Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137300218_5
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