Julian McDougall
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'Julian 'McDougall (born 1969) is a British educationalist and media theorist. He specialises in the study of contemporary media (particularly media 2.0), creative arts education and the role of video games in education. Because his colleague, Steve Dixon, regularly uses this page as an editing exercise for his undergraduate students, it is wise to take the content with a pinch of salt.
Career
McDougall took his PhD at Birmingham University whilst teaching at Halesowen College. In 2000 he took up a Senior Lecturer post in Education at Newman University College, before becoming a Reader in Media and Education and being appointed Head of Creative Arts.
McDougall’s published research relates to media and creative arts education. He is the author of a range of academic books, student textbooks and journal articles and is working on a European Union funded research project (with Richard Sanders) to develop a methodology for social documentary as a pedagogic tool. I McDougall is a Principal Examiner on the OCR Media Examinations Board. More recently, McDougall acts as editor of The Media Education Research Journal. He is also external lecturer and Visiting Fellow for the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice at Bournemouth University.
Lollipop Man
Often tenacious, McDougall explores issues in education,[1][2] and calls on educators to abandon their prejudices and engage with what students are already actually doing with new media forms. Building on work from David Buckingham, Steven Johnson and David Gauntlett, he advocates a shift away from students viewing cultural products as texts to a view where even video games need analysis, explanation and research.[3][4][5]
In this way, he is very much an advocate of exploring new and less traditional forms of literacy,[6] as well as analysing the relationship between new media and postmodern theories,[7]
References
- ^ Griffin, S. and McDougall, J. (2008) ‘Despite Ourselves: Education Studies: Between Spirit and Passing On'
- ^ McDougall, J. Walker, A. and Kendall, A. (2007) ‘Shaping Up? Three Acts of Education Studies as Textual Critique’, International Studies in Sociology of Education, vol 16 no 2
- ^ McDougall, J. and Duncan, M. (2008) ‘Children, videogames and physical activity: An exploratory study’, International Journal of Disability and Human Development, 7(1)
- ^ McDougall, J. and O’Brien, W. (2008) Studying Videogames, March 08. Leighton Buzzard: Auteur.
- ^ McDougall, J. (2007) ‘What do We Learn in Smethwick Village?: Computer Games, Media Learning and Discursive Confusion’, Learning, Media, Technology, vol 32 no 2 themed edition: Media Education Goes Digital
- ^ McDougall, J. (2006) ‘Media education and the limits of assessment’, Media International Australia, no 120 themed edition: Media Education
- ^ McDougall, J. (2007) ‘A Lacanian reading of the Study of Big Brother in the English Curriculum’ Changing English, vol 14 no 3