The materials here are intended for use in teacher education classes.

so, great class…fun, open, informed, and participatory…very cool for a summer class.  it is amazing how much media is in our veins…our students’ veins…our consciousness and formation of our knowledges.  it is hegemonically in the dominant culture’s interest to keep us media illiterate…perhaps that is why media literacy is not on education syllabii, in core curricula, and on our radar.  how different would a critical media curriculum be?  we would not have to alter our content, merely add another lens in which to read media. Freire advocates us to teach our children and youth to read the world–that reading the word is not enough–being functionally literate is still being culturally illiterate.

I am currently working toward my M.A. in Child Studies, and my main focus is Media Literacy. With this class, I have become aware that Media Literacy is in essence inextricably linked with Critical Pedagogy. Until recently, I had not been exposed to the term Critical Pedagogy sufficiently to understand the extent to which it can impact a person's identity construction.

I know this is the urban education Blog but I have to vent about Fox news station. Following is my rant--I have no literature to sight to make this sound academic just my righteous Black woman anger.