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This won’t be on the final: Reflections on teaching critical media literacy By Rhonda Hammer
Author(s): Rhonda Hammer
Abstract:
Long time media literacy educator, Rhonda Hammer, reflects on the development of her ideas and work in media education. Through an analysis of the current state of education and the need to create critically literate citizens for the 21st century, Hammer frames critical media literacy within a context of radical pedagogy. This chapter provides an in depth description of Hammer’s critical media literacy class that she has taught at UCLA for almost a decade. This class combines critical analysis with alternative media production, thereby providing students the framework to interrogate ideology and the politics of representation with the tools of semiotics and hands on media production. Hammer’s reflections offer a wealth of examples of successes and struggles, for almost anyone interested, to be able to apply her ideas in their own course.
APA Citation:
Hammer, R. (2009). This won’t be on the final: Reflections on teaching critical media literacy. In R. Hammer & D. Kellner (Eds.), Media/cultural studies: Critical approaches (pp. 164-193). New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
Chapter appears with permission of the publisher, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc, New York, © 2009. All rights reserved.
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