Teachers College Press Critical Media Pedagogy: Teaching for Achievement in City Schools (Language and Literacy Series)

This practical book examines how teaching media in high school English and social studies classrooms can address major challenges in our educational system. The authors argue that, in addition to providing underserved youth with access to 21st-century learning technologies, critical media education will help improve academic literacy achievement in city schools. <em>Critical Media Pedagogy</em> presents first-hand accounts of teachers who are successfully incorporating critical media education into standards-based lessons and units. The book begins with an analysis of how media have been conceptualised and studied; it identifies the various ways that youth are practicing media, as well as how these practices are constantly increasing in sophistication. Finally, it offers concrete examples of how to develop a rigorous, standards-based content area curriculum that embraces new media practices and features media production. Review "Highly recommended."--Choice About the Author <strong>Ernest Morrell</strong> is a professor of English education at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA and president-elect of the National Council of Teachers of English. <br><br><strong>Rudy Dueñas</strong> is a social studies teacher at Wilson High School, USA and worked for 3 years for UCLA's Summer Research Seminar. <br><br><strong>Veronica Garcia</strong> is a former English teacher at Wilson High School in Los Angeles, USA and currently an education doctoral candidate at the University of Southern California, USA. <br><br><strong>Jorge López</strong> is a social studies teacher at Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles, USA.