{"product_id":"teaching-youth-media_9780807742884","title":"Teaching Youth Media","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResponding to our national concern about adolescents, literacy, media, and violence, \u003cb\u003eTeaching Youth Media\u003c\/b\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDescribes the changes schools and after-school programs need to make in order to create a media education that empowers students to change their world.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplores the intersection of literacy and culture as youth learn to analyze information from a variety of sources, including television, newspapers, books, films, school, church, and their lives outside of school.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFeatures case studies of students and teachers engaged in making video documentaries at EVC and in an alternative high school.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIlluminates the practical day-to-day challenges faced by professional developers and teachers working to change the way education is practiced in their classes and schools.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLooks at the profound “disconnect” that results when teachers and curriculum fail to recognize the social and cultural contexts in which urban students live.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplores the critical thinking and technical video arts skills students develop as they learn collaboratively to conduct interviews, research, shoot, log, and edit their documentaries.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Steven Goodman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43037277585510,"sku":"9780807742884","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/4051\/5174\/files\/9780807742884.jpg?v=1771505067","url":"https:\/\/www.tcpress.com\/products\/teaching-youth-media_9780807742884","provider":"Teachers College Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}