Juha Suoranta

In many ways the history of Finnish media education can be perceived to be a part of the
birth of Finland – the winning of her independence, the development of the Finnish language
and the construction of Finnish identity – the national project and the history of Finnish
popular liberal education, in which two stages are discernible. The first great wave of
the latter part of the nineteenth century signified the age of civilising the masses into citizenship
The second great wave gained momentum in the 1960s with the beginning of the
drive to educate people into the information society. The last phase of this great history,
the further development of information society skills, has continued since the 1980s to the
present day. Such a rough historical division paves the way for the following observation
regarding media education: whether liberal education or media education, it is noteworthy
that educational efforts came from above and represented vanguard thinking, likewise that
they were surprisingly serious and geared to high culture.
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