11 AN EDUCATION- CENTRED APPROACH TO DIGITAL MEDIA EDUCATION SAARA SALOMAA AND PEKKA MERTALA CHAPTER OVERVIEW This chapter presents a pedagogical approach referred to as an education-centred approach for digital media education. The chapter is structured around three fundamental questions that all educators need to ask themselves regarding the pedagogical value of digital media: • What is media education for? • Who is media education for? • How should media education be carried out? With these questions in mind, it is possible to challenge readers to reflect on what it means to be a media educator in early childhood education. The under- lying idea of this approach is to stimulate ‘media educational consciousness’, that is, professional awareness for media education. 11_GRAY_PALAIOLOGOU_CH_11.indd 151 26/12/2018 5:04:05 PM