Development of media literacy in higher education institutions of Ukraine

Abstract

This paper deals with the issues of popularization of media education in Ukraine and students’ media literacy development. The purpose of the work is to highlight the tasks of the training course “Major EU practices on media literacy for boosting students’ critical thinking in the frame of the target language learning”, developed for teaching at Sumy National Agrarian University within the implementation of the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Module project “EU strategies extrapolation for boosting students’ media literacy in Ukrainian HE”. It is noted that in the midst of martial law the formation of such competencies as critical thinking, fact-checking, digital security, resistance to influences, etc., is of particular importance among the young generation.