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This chapter investigates the relationship between technical and operational skills and the development of conceptual knowledge and literacy in media arts learning. It argues that there is a relationship between the stories, expressions and ideas that students aim to produce with communications media, and their ability to realise these in material form through technical processes in specific material contexts. Our claim is that there is a relationship between the technical and the operational, along with material relations and the development of conceptual knowledge and literacy in media arts learning. We place more emphasis on the material aspects of literacy than is usually the case in socio-cultural accounts of media literacy. We provide examples from a current project to demonstrate that it is just as important to address the material as it is the discursive and conceptual when considering how students develop media literacy in classroom spaces.
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This data was collected as part of an Australian Research Council Linkage project entitled the URLearning project. We thank the ARC for their support of the research. The project was a collaboration between researchers at QUT, the teachers’ union and the school in which the project was located. We thank the children, teachers, leaders and community of the school who are our research partners. All participants have provided consent and where appropriate images have been blurred for anonymity reasons. Our research colleagues on this project include Allan Luke, Amanda Levido, Karen Dooley, Beryl Exley, Vinesh Chandra, Katherine Doyle, Kathy Mills, and John Davis from QUT and John McCollow and Lesley McFarlane from the QTU.
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In Australia Year Four is in the middle primary years and caters to children aged 8 and 9.
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Dezuanni, M., Woods, A. (2014). Developing Media Production Skills for Literacy in a Primary School Classroom: Digital Materials, Embodied Knowledge and Material Contexts. In: Barton, G. (eds) Literacy in the Arts. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04846-8_9
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