TV and reality: a proposal for teachers' training

This paper describes an educational process which enables the participants to a critical analysis of television and its contents. This educational method has been developed at "La Salle" University centre, in a social educators and teachers training course, in the frame of the subject called "Techniques of Social Communication and Advertisement". It is based on a methodology that aims the development and promotion of complex thinking and critical consciousness. Reference to some techniques for the analysis of television in class may also be found.