Special Issues, Volume 1: Critical Media Literacy

Bringing Lives to Texts

Tom Liam Lynch, Tom Liam Lynch

• Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9780814100103
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Teaching Languages

Edited by Tom Liam Lynch, this collection of essays drawn from NCTE's many journals provides an excellent starting point for teachers who want to bring critical media literacy into their K-12 and college classrooms.

Critical media literacy is not a single star burning brightly in the night sky. It is more like a constellation, a collection of stars that tell a story about how educators engage with young people through an array of communicative modes in the spirit of inquiry, society, and action.

About the Special Issue series:
Most teachers and students across the country are grappling with several important issues. We hear from many educators who are looking for compelling and engaging approaches racial literacy, critical media literacy, and trauma-informed teaching.

NCTE is responding to these needs with Special Issues, a series of books designed to directly address these pressing topics in K-12 and college classrooms today. The first volumes collect content on these topics from across all of NCTE's journals in one place, to make the most relevant material accessible and practical.

Edited by expert practitioners in the field, each volume contains teaching tips to help implement these approaches in classrooms.

Table of contents

• Editor's Introduction
• Critical Media Literacy: A Pedagogy for New Literacies and Urban Youth
• Contexts, Codes, and Cultures: An Interview with NCTE President Ernest Morell
• Revolutionizing Inquiry in Urban English Classrooms: Pursuing Voice and Justice through Youth Participatory Action Research
• Multimodal Cuentos as Fugitive Literacies on the Mexico-US Borderlands
• Education Reform and Potemkin Villages: Expanding Conceptions of “Data”
• Provocateur Pieces: At the Kitchen Table: Black Women English Educators Speaking Our Truths
• Embracing the Messiness of Research: Documentary Video Composing as Embodied, Critical Media Literacy
• Sounding the Garden, Voicing a Problem: Mobilizing Critical Literacy through Personal Digital Inquiry with Young Children
• Reluctantly Recognizing Resistance: An Analysis of Representations of Critical Literacy in English Journal
• A New Analytical Framework for Teaching Propaganda in Print and Nonprint Text
• Innovation from Below: Infrastructure, Design, and Equity in Literacy Classroom Makerspaces
• Counter-Storytelling vs. Deficit Thinking around African American Children and Families, Digital Literacies, Race, and the Digital Divide
• Achieving through the Feedback Loop: Videogames, Authentic Assessment, and Meaningful Learning
• Same as It Ever Was: Enacting the Promise of Teaching, Writing, and New Media
• Today Is the Tomorrow We Should Have Prepared for Yesterday: Rebuilding Our Classrooms to Facilitate Student-Centered, Teacher-Sustaining, Tech-Supported Education
• Middle Schools and New Literacies: Looking Back and Moving Forward
• Turning Archives into Data: Archival Rhetorics and Digital Literacy in the Composition Classroom
• Electrical Evocations: Computer Science, the Teaching of Literature, and the Future of English Education
• Call for Manuscripts: Volume 2