Media Education : Literacy, Learning and Contemporary Culture

Print version:

""Cover Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface and Acknowledgements""; ""Part I Rationales""; ""1 Why Teach the Media?""; ""What are media?""; ""What is media education?""; ""Why media education?""; ""The evolution of media education in the UK""; ""Democratization and defensiveness""; ""Towards a new paradigm""; ""Moving ahead: teaching and learning""; ""Moving ahead: a bigger picture""; ""A continuing story""; ""2 New Media Childhoods""; ""Childhood and the media""; ""Changing childhoods""; ""Technologies""; ""Economics""; ""Texts""; ""Audiences"" ""Implications for education""""3 Media Literacies""; ""Defining literacy""; ""A social theory of literacies""; ""Mapping media literacies""; ""Beyond the magic window""; ""Reality problems""; ""The limits of assessment""; ""Why literacy?""; ""Part II The State of the Art""; ""4 Defining the Field""; ""Production""; ""Language""; ""Representation""; ""Audiences""; ""Key concepts in practice""; ""Conclusion: some general principles""; ""5 Classroom Strategies""; ""Textual analysis""; ""Contextual analysis""; ""Case studies""; ""Translations""; ""Simulations""; ""Production""; ""Conclusion"" ""6 Locating Media Education""""A separate academic subject: Media Studies""; ""Media education across the curriculum""; ""Media education in language and literature teaching""; ""Media education and ICTs""; ""Vocational media education""; ""Media education beyond the classroom""; ""Conclusion""; ""Part III Media Learning""; ""7 Becoming Critical""; ""The social functions of ‘criticism’""; ""Critical language games""; ""Approaching ‘ideology’""; ""Learning critical discourse""; ""Beyond criticism?""; ""8 Getting Creative""; ""Changing practices""; ""The limits of ‘creativity’"" ""The social worlds of production""""Writing media""; ""Using genres""; ""Conclusion""; ""9 Defining Pedagogy""; ""Understanding conceptual learning""; ""Towards a dynamic model""; ""Researching audiences: the social self""; ""Self-evaluation: from practice to theory""; ""Beyond the model""; ""Part IV New Directions""; ""10 Politics, Pleasure and Play""; ""Postmodern identities?""; ""Playful pedagogies""; ""The politics of parody""; ""Working through pleasure?""; ""Conclusion""; ""11 Digital Literacies""; ""Towards digital literacies""; ""Models of digital production"" ""The meanings of ‘access’""""Processes and products""; ""Technology and pedagogy""; ""12 New Sites of Learning""; ""Media education beyond the classroom""; ""Media and youth work""; ""Media and ‘informal’ learning""; ""Evaluation""; ""Towards deschooling?""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""Back Cover""