This handbook intends to elucidate the notion of media education. It traces its historical evolution and offers a definition of media education based on four “key concepts”: production, languages, representations, publics,–that refer to the “proposal for a modular curriculum”. It also considers practical and pedagogical approaches to media teaching and learning. It does not specify a particular "canon" of prescribed texts or a given body of knowledge. Rather it seeks to encourage critical and creative thinking in the mind of students while responding to their curiosity.