RT Journal Article SR Electronic A1 Niklesová, Eva T1 The Possibilities of Utilization of TV Discussions within Media Education (with Focus on Gymnasium's Education) JF Civilia YR 2017 VO 8 IS 1 SP 15 OP 34 DO 10.5507/civ.2017.002 UL https://civilia.upol.cz/artkey/civ-201701-0002.php AB The paper deals with the possibilities of educational use of the Czech political television debates within the integration of the cross-cutting theme of Media Education especially in the educational fields Civil and Social Sciences, Czech Language and Literature and History. The paper attempts to capture various aspects of the views of this type of program (source of information on current political events, part of pre-election campaigns, marketing tool for self-presentation of politicians, demonstration of current trends in mediated communication, material for analysis of persuasion strategies, etc.). The aim of the contribution lies in the general effort to link the development of media and political literacy and political socialization (especially) to students of grammar schools.