Teaching Youth Media: A Critical Guide to Literacy, Video Production, & Social Change

by Goodman, Steven; Greene, Maxine

• ISBN13: 9780807742884
• ISBN10: 0807742880
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

This book explores the power of using media education to help urban teenagers develop their critical thinking and literacy skills. Drawing on his 20 years of experience working with inner-city youth at the acclaimed Educational Video Center (EVC) in New York City, Steven Goodman looks closely at both the problems and possibilities of this model of media education.

Author Biography

Steven Goodman is the founder and Executive Director of the Educational Video Center (EVC) in New York City.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Maxine Greene
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(3)
Critical Literacy: Reading the Dominant Medium	4	(4)
The Factory System of Schooling	8	(2)
Attempts to Go Beyond the Factory System: Teaching With and About the Media	10	(8)
Working Toward Synthesis at EVC	18	(2)
Closing the Disconnect	20	(3)
Framing the Inner-City Teenager: Criminals, Consumers, and the Literacy Gap	23	(14)
Two Systems of Authority	24	(1)
And Justice for Some	25	(1)
Selling Teen Rebellion	26	(1)
Youth Culture Spies	27	(2)
Empowered to Speak for Themselves	29	(2)
Multiple Literacies: Reading and Writing the Media	31	(6)
Cameras and Guns in the Streets: Teaching Critical Literacy in the Documentary Workshop	37	(24)
The Doc Workshop	38	(2)
Out on a Shoot	40	(1)
Talking and Watching Words	41	(2)
Self-Portraits	43	(2)
Making It Public	45	(3)
Trusting Information	48	(2)
Local Interpreters	50	(1)
Out on a Shoot (Revisited)	51	(3)
Teaching and Learning in the Zone of Proximal Development	54	(7)
Dreams and Nightmares: A Case Study of Video in a Classroom	61	(38)
Setting the Context: A Community Under Siege	64	(1)
The Class	65	(1)
Logging	66	(4)
Choosing a Group Topic	70	(14)
Interviewing	84	(6)
Reflections and Releases	90	(6)
Tranformations	96	(3)
Conclusion: Reimagining the School Day	99	(14)
Barriers in School	100	(2)
Opportunities After School	102	(2)
Youth Media as Civic Engagement	104	(1)
Social Capital	105	(2)
Reimagining the School Day	107	(2)
Documentation, Reflection, and Staff Development	109	(1)
Student Voices	109	(4)
References	113	(4)
Suggested Works	117	(2)
Index	119	(10)
About the Author	129