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ItemProcess, product and exhibition : phenomenology in media education( 2006)Our world is an increasingly visual one that is dominated by the visual media. Therefore, the role of Media education has never been more relevant or fundamental to curriculum as it is today. As a subject, Media has long served to teach students the skills to become not only visually literate and critical viewers of the media, but also to become producers of the media itself. These dual components of formally studying the literacies of 'Media' in a classroom (as compared to being exposed to the media without instruction by a trained teacher) and the practical element of creating a media product for exhibition are central to the media student's individual experience. From these core ideas came key questions - what is the lived experience of the media student? Process, Product and Exhibition: Phenomenology in Media Education explores the lived experience of three participants who each studied Media in their final year of secondary school in Victoria, Australia. Using a Phenomenological methodology, each experience was transcribed, reduced and distilled to two core themes - 'The Process: Creative Control/Freedom, the making of a Product and the Experience of Exhibition', and 'Media Literacy, Texts and Hermeneutical Readings'. This thesis concludes by exploring the suggestion that producing a media product is an exercise in lived experience, one that the student journeys through as an existential rite of passage. It also explores the experience of interpretation and how the phenomenological-hermeneutic readings of media texts enable students to feel like "insiders" who are more visually literate that those who have not formally studied Media.