The Literacy for Media and Journalism project, a partnership between the Union of Journalists and the Ministry of Education, will be extended to ten cities in mainland Portugal from March. training for teachers.
Unlike the pilot edition held in 2019, which underwent a prior selection of participating schools, this year registration for the training is open to all interested teachers, even though those who present themselves as a team have priority.
Bragança, Braga, Figueira da Foz, Covilhã, Santarém, Cascais, Lisbon, Setúbal, Sines and Lagos will host, between 7 March and 30 May, a training workshop coordinated by active journalists and journalism and communication teachers, designed by the Union of Journalists and financed by the Regional Directorate of Education and by Cenjor (Protocol Center for Professional Training for Journalists).
Enrollment in training can be done by clicking here, until February 25, and the schools that will host the training can be found at this link..
A first edition of this project, which took place between January and April 2019, trained a hundred teachers in the 3rd cycle and secondary, teachers in 40 groups of schools in the North, Centre, Lisbon, Alentejo and Algarve regions.
In January 2017, following the 4th Congress of Portuguese Journalists, which approved a motion deeming it urgent to promote media literacy, the Union of Journalists presented to the Ministry of Education a proposal for intervention in this area, designed by journalists and academics in the area. of communication.
Two years later, the project took off across the continent, with the aim of providing teachers with methodologies, resources and tools that they can use in Media Literacy activities that they will develop with their students and with the school and educational communities.
At the same time, it is intended to involve journalists in the training of teachers and students on the challenges facing the important role of mediating and scrutinizing reality today.
This project, which has the High Sponsorship of the President of the Republic, advanced this year with a pilot experience also in the Azores, where it has the support of the Regional Directorate of Education and Cenjor.
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