Audiovisual literacy at school: a case study

We are living a moment of change in communicational paradigms through technology, which makes a society emerge in which we are continuously bombarded with audiovisual messages. Consequently, there is a consensus between family associations and educational, artistic and political institutions regarding the need for audiovisual literacy. Programs for the implementation of audiovisuals in schools are announced and studies appear in relation to this medium, but they do not crystallize into concrete projects, but rather the voluntary nature of the teachers, who do not feel prepared or have just found the space of the audiovisual in the curriculum. From this starting point, we have focused on the case study of a center in which the materialization of a specific project does occur. This project, whose name is "Educar la gaze", is carried out in Trabenco, a public school in Leganes, with a general character of a center, during school hours and with a curricular content. Our research aims to decipher which are the keys for this initiative to take place, audiovisual literacy being an activity that is conspicuous by its absence in public schools.