Pierre Fastrez is Senior Research Associate at the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research and Professor of Information and Communication at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). His main research interests concern the definition of media literacy competence and media literacy assessment methods.Normand Landry is Professor at TÉLUQ University and Canada Research Chair in Media Education and Human Rights. His work focuses on communication rights, media education, social movement theory, law, and democratic communications.

• Introduction: Navigating the Field of Media Education and Media Literacy through its Research Methods: Media Practices, Educational Initiatives, and Prescriptive DiscoursesPart 1: Media PracticesChapter One: Documenting Media Practices to Define Media Literacy Competence: A Qualitative ApproachChapter Two: Studying the Media Education Practices of Young Children at Home: Methodological Lessons from a Cross-national Qualitative Study on Digital Activities at HomeChapter Three: Participatory Action Research and Media Literacy: Towards Engaged, Accountable, and Collaborative Knowledge Production with Marginalized CommunitiesChapter Four: Observing Literacy Practices in the “Third Space”: Research MethodsChapter Five: Researching Media Literacy Practices Using Both Critical and Posthuman InquiryPart 2: Educational InitiativesChapter Six: Methodological Considerations in Researching Teachers’ Views and Practices of Media LiteracyChapter Seven: A Research Methodology Aimed at Analyzing Teaching Practices in Relation to the Development of Digital Skills in a University SettingChapter Eight: Design-based Research into the Co-creation of Teaching Activities for the Theoretical Refinement of a Multimodal Media Literacy Competency ModelChapter Nine: Quantitative Methods for Assessing Media Literacy in Evaluations of Health Promotion Intervention Programs Using Media Literacy EducationChapter Ten: Issues of Pedagogy, Alignment, and Context in Assessing Measures of Media LiteracyPart 3: Prescriptive DiscoursesChapter Eleven: Analyzing Public Policies on Media Education: From Modalization to Modeling of Official DiscoursesChapter Twelve: Analyzing School Curricula, Training Programs, and Learning Material: A Method in Media EducationChapter Thirteen: Quick-Scan Analysis as a Method to Analyze and Compare Media Literacy FrameworksChapter Fourteen: Critical Discourse Studies for Research on Media and Information Literacy Projects: An Illustrated Discussion of Seven Methodological ConsiderationsChapter Fifteen: Rethinking Media Education Policy Research and Advocacy: A Deliberative Approach