媒介素养教育源于20世纪30年代的英国,盛行于美国、澳大利亚等国,其要义在于通过教育培养人们获取、分析、评价和传播各种媒介信息的能力以及使用媒介信息为个人生活、社会发展所用的能力。1997年,英国就有近2/3的学校开设媒介研究课程,现在许多学院和大学设有媒介素养教育的教师培训 Media literacy education originated in Britain in the 1930s and prevailed in the United States and Australia. The essence of media literacy education lies in its ability to cultivate people’s ability to acquire, analyze, evaluate and disseminate various kinds of media information through education and to use media information for personal life and social development The ability to use. Nearly two-thirds of the schools in the United Kingdom opened media studies programs in 1997, and many colleges and universities now have teacher training for media literacy education