Critical media education in Malaysia: A challenge to vocational-orientation

Authors

S. Balraj-Ambigapathy, Universiti Sains Malaysia

Abstract

This article examines the pedagogic vacuum in media education in Malaysia where critical inquiry has been made subservient to the acquisition of technical skills. It suggests that vocational oriented communication courses should engage in constructing alternative representations, meaning and values so that what is experienced by the students and the community is a mutual educative process of participatory communication.

Recommended Citation

Balraj-Ambigapathy, S., Critical media education in Malaysia: A challenge to vocational-orientation, Asia Pacific Media Educator, 3, 1997, 142-151.
Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/apme/vol1/iss3/10