Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Tony Lavender and Birgitte Tufte 1 -- 1 Curriculum and Teacher Training in Scotland -- Tony Lavender 11 -- 2 Media: The Alternative School -- Birgitte Tufte 37 -- 3 Considerations of Difference: South African Media Education Initiatives and the Politics of Identity -- Jeanne Prinsloo 45 -- 4 The Understanding of Television by Kindergarteners: The Early Development of Television Literacy -- Dafna Lemish 67 -- 5 The Plot Thickens: A Cultural Studies Approach to Media Education in India I -- K.P. Jayasankar and Anjali Monteiro 91 -- 6 Critical Media and Cultural Studies in New Times -- Carmen Luke 105 -- 7 A Media Education for the 21st Century -- Manuel Alvarado 119 -- 8 New Trends in Mass Communication Research: Implications for Media Education -- Keval J. Kumar 141 -- 9 The Active Approach in Media Education -- Jose Martinez-de-Toda 149 -- 10 Glocalizing Media Education: A Pedagogy of Plenty -- Dafna Lemish 173