Lagos is one of the six cities that will host the Literacy for Media and Journalism project from Saturday until May 30th.
In addition to the city of Barlavento Algarvio, this 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), will be in Bragança, Braga, Cascais, Lisbon and Setúbal.
Unlike the pilot edition held in 2019, which underwent a previous selection of participating schools, this year registration for the training was open to all interested teachers.
The first edition of this project, which took place between January and April 2019, trained a hundred teachers of 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 from area of communication”, according to the Union of Journalists.
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 that are currently posed to the important function of mediating and scrutinizing reality», concludes the union.
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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