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Becoming Me in Third Space: Media Education for North Korean Refugee Youths in South Korea
Author(s) -
Jang EunYoung,
Kang Shin Ji
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of adolescent and adult literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1936-2706
pISSN - 1081-3004
DOI - 10.1002/jaal.949
Subject(s) - refugee , space (punctuation) , identity (music) , focus group , gender studies , qualitative research , pedagogy , sociology , media studies , political science , social science , anthropology , philosophy , linguistics , physics , acoustics , law
In this study, the authors explored curricular practices of media education for North Korean refugee youths resettled in South Korea, and investigated the impacts of the media education program on their identity construction. Guided by third space theory and framed within a qualitative research paradigm, this media education program was developed by a group of North and South Korean teaching artists. Multimodal data collected throughout the first year were analyzed thematically with a focus on the discursive construction of identities of North Korean youth participants. The participants were invited to reconsider their identities and address multiple dimensions of lived challenges in a safe media education space.