Through the Wringer: Teaching Social Values with Print Media

The approach and teaching ideas in this article are linked to VCE Media Design and will also be very valuable for Media Studies teachers at senior levels in all states and territories. The article provides detailed lessons and resources that were used to teach the key Media Education concepts of Social Values, Representations, Codes and Conventions using print advertising in women's magazines from the 1940s and 1950s, but other print-based texts could also be appropriate to this approach.