Transformative Practice in Critical Media Literacy

Radical Democracy and Decolonized Pedagogy in Higher Education

Steve Gennaro, Nolan Higdon, Michael Hoechsmann

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032451350
• eBook ISBN: 9781040000960
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Literacy

Transformative Practice in Critical Media Literacy brings together a diverse selection of essays to examine the knowledge production crisis in higher education and the role that news media and technology play in this process.

This text highlights the importance of radical pedagogy and critical media literacy to fight back and reclaim higher education as the battleground for democracy and the embodiment of citizenship. Using a global and social justice lens, it explores the transformative potential of critical media literacy in higher education. It also provides real examples of current critical media literacy practices around the globe and of successful experiences inside classrooms. In an era of fake news, this text fulfils the yearning for critical media literacy to permeate higher education by drawing together practitioners and scholars speaking to journalism students, teacher candidates, and to students, scholars, and activists across a variety of spaces in higher education.

This book will be a key resource for scholars, students, policymakers, community members and activists interested in education, politics, youth studies, critical theory, intersectionality, social justice and peace studies, activism, critical media literacy, communication, or media studies.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Endorsements Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• About the Editors
• Contributors
• Foreword
• We the People Must Become We the Media: Transformative Practice in Critical Media Literacy Education
• 1 Critical Media Literacy in Higher Education: What Mattered Then and What Matters Now
• 2 Social Justice is Not Possible Without Critical Media Literacy
• 3 Finding Educommunication: In Search of Praxis in Canadian Educologies
• 4 Preparatory Courses for Graduate Programs and Digital Literacy During the COVID-19 Pandemic
• 5 Radical Education and the Abolitionist University
• 6 The Peruvian University: New Models Arising from the Post-Pandemic Uncertainty?
• 7 Rethinking Disorder: The 1619 Project, Social Struggles, Direct Action, and Critical Pedagogy Today
• 8 Exploiting The News to Make Change: The Dynamic Media Environments Model for Educating and Acting in the Digital Space
• 9 Critical Media Literacy and the University as Media: A Reflexive Social Epistemology
• 10 Reclaiming Media Education for the Environment: A Case for Critical Ecomedia Literacy in Professional Journalism Schools
• 11 Decolonizing Knowledge Systems in Media Education with Ecomedia Literacy
• 12 Rethinking Curriculums: How Critical Digital Literacy and Mandatory Composition Courses Collide
• 13 Theory as a “Healing Place”: Critical Literacy, Media Production, and Minoritized Students
• 14 Teaching Podcasting in Ethnic Studies Classrooms: The Alchemist Manifesto Podcast, Digital Literacy Pedagogies and Lessons from Student
• 15 Scratching the Surface: How the Meta Journalism Project Helps Legitimize Platform Capitalism and Undermine Critical Media Literacy?
• 16 Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed as a Method to Promote Critical Media Literacy Pedagogy
• 17 “I Should Not Have to Take a Class That is so Harmfully Liberal Again”: Radical Democracy and Preparing Transformative Teachers
• 18 The Road Ahead: Empowering Critical Thinkers and Digital Citizens
• Index