Understanding the Sports Media: Why it is Important to Teach Critical Media Skills

Dr Toni Bruce - University of Waikato

This presentation explored some of the main reasons why it is so important for physical educators to critically assess the sports media and to begin the process of developing young people as critical media consumers.
Using examples from research she discussed a series of contexts – including the areas of gender, race and ethnicity, national identity and disability – that teachers can use to facilitate discussion.

Ways that teachers may find useful to facilitate discuss with students and to teach critical (sport) media literacy skills.