Traditional media literacy models are mostly left-brained, inherited from the legacy of alphabetic literacy, the Gutenberg press revolution, and industrial mass media production. New digital media radically alter the environment: their nonlinear, multisensory, field-like properties are more right-brain oriented. Consequently, rather than focus exclusively on deconstructing the products of design objects (such as an advertisement «text»), digital learning should respond to the design of the system itself, including cultural and cognitive bias. Mediacology proposes a design-for-pattern approach called «media permaculture», which restructures media literacy to be in sync with new media practices connected with sustainability and the perceptual functions of the right brain hemisphere. In the same way that permaculture approaches gardening by establishing the natural parameters of its ecological niche, media permaculture explores the individual¿s «mediacological niche» in the context of knowledge communities. By applying bioregional thinking to the symbolic order, media permaculture redresses the standard one-size-fits-all literacy model by taking into account diverse cognitive strategies and emerging convergence media practices. Antonio López applies a practical knowledge of alternative media, cross-cultural communication, and ecology to build a meaningful theory of media education.
This edited volume brings together work from leading scholars and new voices in the field of emotional intelligence. It examines emotional intelligence from the perspectives of educational psychology and positive psychology, with integrations across the two disciplines. Viewing emotional intelligence through these frameworks allows and illuminates the exploration of its positive potential and of emotional processing in contexts such as schools and workplaces. Readers will find leading empirical and theoretical views on emotional intelligence presented in this comprehensive collection, as well as inspiration for future research.
A collection of letters from leading educators and scholars to practicing and future teachers. It offers advice, encouragement, and inspiration in the form of innovative ideas to ignite teachers' passion for their work in the midst of a range of discouraging situations.
Through the eyes of Muslim teachers, students, and members of Islamic communities, this title offers a comprehensive understanding of the problems, perspectives, and possibilities of sexuality education for Muslim youth living in the West. It explores how these youth negotiate between Muslim and popular cultural constructions of sexuality.
Engages Indigenous knowledges more than a contest of the marginals, challenging the way oppositional knowledges are positioned, particularly in the Western academy. This book recognizes and acknowledge Indigenous knowledges as legitimate knowings in their own right, and not necessarily in competition with other sources or forms of knowledge.
This book recounts the life and thought of Paulo Freire, a man who appeared at a critical point in history, and whose courageous, prophetic voice of conscience remains extraordinarily relevant.
Discourses and Identities in Contexts of Educational Change
Discourses and Identities in Contexts of Educational Change
Presents portraits of a small group of teen mothers trying to finish high school, and describes ways in which reading, writing, and schooling shaped these young women's lives. This book suggests ways in which deeply held ideas about class, appropriate gender roles, and expression of emotion in school affect educators' relationships with students.
Integrating Multiculturalism into the Curriculum: From the Liberal Arts to the Sciences is a reader that introduces the Multicultural Curriculum Transformation and Research Institute, a successful multicultural curriculum transformation paradigm that is a model for colleges and universities across the country and abroad.
While American society has become more visual and digital, the general state of literacy in America is in crisis, with educators and public officials worried about falling educational standards, the rising influence of popular culture, and growing numbers of non-English-speaking immigrants. This book deals with this topic.
A compilation of personal essays by lesbian teachers and students who speak about sexual identity and its influence on the teaching and learning process. It provides twenty-six essays that give readers the opportunity to recognize, connect with, and critically think about the personal and political challenges.
A compilation of personal essays by lesbian teachers and students who speak about sexual identity and its influence on the teaching and learning process. It provides twenty-six essays that give readers the opportunity to recognize, connect with, and critically think about the personal and political challenges.
Stimulates conversation among liberal arts and education professionals as well as inform public school teachers about the life and times of Frederick Douglass. This book facilitates conversation, addressing the liberal arts professor's concern with content and the education professor's concern with pedagogy.
Stimulates conversation among liberal arts and education professionals as well as inform public school teachers about the life and times of Frederick Douglass. This book facilitates conversation, addressing the liberal arts professor's concern with content and the education professor's concern with pedagogy.
Gives a voice to undocumented Americans of Mexican origin. This book is about their stories and how, against the odds, they offer resistance as they navigate across ideological, historical, socio-economic, institutional and educational borders, in an effort to carve out a life in US society.
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