How to Build Media Maturity at Home – a webinar (not only) for parents [1/2]
In this webinar, we will listen to inspirational speakers and find ways together to strengthen children and young people in order to build up their media maturity. By the time they reach adulthood, they should be enabled to use the full range of analogue and digital tools for their own education, for participation in civil society and the labour market. Finding manageable and livable solutions at home, but also to collaboratively work with their school or kindergarten are paramount for building up resilience in children. We will discover ways to decide in an evidence-informed, context-related, and independant way how much time to spend on digital tools, for which purpose, and always with a conscious and critical approach to the content shared or consumed through media, to keep the children safe and to keep their well-being intact.
In the HERMMES partnership, three parents’ organisations, the European Parents’ Association, the European Network of Steiner Waldorf Parents, and the Norwegian Steiner School Parents’ Association contribute with the caregivers’ point of view to the materials being developed. Together with universities, schools, international educational organisations, and educational service providers, they work on holistic and development-oriented ways to build up media maturity in children.
Additional Details
Other core Themes - Prevention; Parental role; Education
Online or Hybrid event - Yes
Number of participants - 100
Attachments -
Organizer
EPA has been the only EU-level organisation representing parents as a stakeholder group in education since its foundation in 1985. Through our 30+ member organisations we have a nearly full coverage of Europe as we have working contact with almost all EU-member states, while we have members from some non-EU countries (e.g. Serbia, Ukraine, etc.) as well. The main objectives of EPA are to promote and advocate for the active involvement of parents as primary educators at all stages of the education of their children, to support parents’ associations and individual parents for stakeholder involvement in different European countries, cooperation and exchanging information and to support the highest possible quality of education for all children in Europe.
The European Council for Steiner Waldorf Education is an international non-profit organisation that consists of 27 national Steiner Waldorf school associations, representing 775 Steiner Waldorf schools across 28 European countries. Our policy priorities include freedom of education, diversity in assessment and age-appropriate media education.