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1 online resource (253 pages)

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Summary

With the ever-growing proliferation of electronic and other popular media, the complexity of relationship between what students see and hear, what they believe and how they interact with one another underscores now, more than ever, the need for across-the-curriculum teaching of critical thinking, critical reading, and critical viewing skills. The emerging consensus is that teaching critical viewing skills bolsters students' abilities in traditional disciplines, combats problems of youth apathy, violence, and substance abuse, and improves students', parents, and teachers' attitudes' toward scho.

Contents

Series Editors'' Foreword; 1. Introduction: What Is Intermediality and Why Study It in U.S. Classrooms? ; 2. Deep Viewing: Intermediality in Preservice Teacher Education; 3. Intermediality in the Classroom: Learners Constructing Meaning Through Deep Viewing; 4. Preservice Teachers'' Collages of Multicultural Education; 5. A Late-''60s Leftie''s Lessons in Media Literacy: A Collaborative Learning Group Project for a Mass Communication Course; 6. The Power and Possibilities of Video Technology and Intermediality ; 7. A Feminist Critique of Media Representation

8. Critical Media Literacy as an English Language Content Course in Japan9. Critical Viewing as Response to Intermediality: Implications for Media Literacy; 10. Intermediality, Hypermedia, and Critical Media Literacy; 11. Afterword; About the Editors and Contributors; Index

Subject

Critical thinking -- Study and teaching.

Mass media in education.

Media literacy.

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Added Author

Watts Pailliotet, Ann.

Other Form:

Print version: 9780813334806

ISBN

9780786743261

0786743263

0813334802

9780813334806