Transformative Practice in Critical Media Literacy

Auteur

Steve Gennaro is a critical theorist, philosopher of technology, award-winning educator, and child rights activist. He is also one of the founding members of the Children, Childhood, and Youth Studies Program at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Nolan Higdon is a Lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.

Michael Hoechsmann is a Professor of Education and Adjunct Professor of Media, Film, and Communications at Lakehead University (Orillia).

Texte du rabat

Transformative Practice in Critical Media Literacy brings together a diverse selection of essays to examine the knowledge production crisis in higher education and the role that news media and technology play in this process.

Résumé

Transformative Practice in Critical Media Literacy brings together a diverse selection of essays to examine the knowledge production crisis in higher education and the role that news media and technology play in this process.

This text highlights the importance of radical pedagogy and critical media literacy to fight back and reclaim higher education as the battleground for democracy and the embodiment of citizenship. Using a global and social justice lens, it explores the transformative potential of critical media literacy in higher education. It also provides real examples of current critical media literacy practices around the globe and of successful experiences inside classrooms. In an era of fake news, this text fulfils the yearning for critical media literacy to permeate higher education by drawing together practitioners and scholars speaking to journalism students, teacher candidates, and to students, scholars, and activists across a variety of spaces in higher education.

This book will be a key resource for scholars, students, policymakers, community members and activists interested in education, politics, youth studies, critical theory, intersectionality, social justice and peace studies, activism, critical media literacy, communication, or media studies.

Contenu

1. 25 Years of Critical Media Literacy: What Mattered then & What Matters now in Higher Education
   
   2. Social Justice Is Not Possible Without Critical Media Literacy
   3. Finding the 'edu' in educommunicación: In search of praxis in teacher education
   4. Preparatory Courses for Graduate Programs and Digital Literacy During the Covid-19 Pandemic
   5. Radical Education and the Abolitionist University
   6. The Peruvian university: Will new models emerge from post-pandemic uncertainty?
   7. Rethinking Disorder: Social Struggles, Direct Action, and Critical Pedagogy
   8. Exploiting the News to Make Change: A Dynamic Model of Media Environments as Landscape For Understanding and Participating in the Digital Environment
   9. Critical Media Literacy and the University as Medium: A Reflexive Social Epistemology
   10. Reclaiming Media Education for the Environment: A Case for Critical Ecomedia Literacy in Professional Journalism Schools
   11. The Anthropocene's Epistemic Enclosure: Utilizing Ecomedia Literacy to Revive the Knowledge Commons
   12. Rethinking Curriculums: How Critical Digital Literacy and Mandatory Composition Courses Collide
   13. Theory as a 'Healing Place': Critical Literacy, Media Production, and Minoritized Students
   14. Teaching Podcasting in Ethnic Studies Classrooms: The Alchemist Manifesto Podcast, Digital Literacy Pedagogies and Lessons from Student Projects in and beyond the Global Pandemic
   15. Scratching the Surface: How Facebook Journalism Project Undermines Journalistic Integrity and Critical Media Literacy?
   16. Augusto Boal's Theater of the Oppressed as a Vehicle to Promote Critical Media Literacy
   17. "I should not have to take a class that is so harmfully liberal again": Radical Democracy and Preparing Transformative Teachers
   18. The Road Ahead: Empowering Critical Thinkers and Digital Citizens