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Teaching youth media : a critical guide to literacy, video production & social change

This book explores the power of using media education to help urban teenagers develop their critical thinking and literacy skills. Drawing on his twenty years of experience working with inner-city youth at the acclaimed Educational Video Center (EVC) in New York City, the author looks closely at both the problems and possibilities of this model of media education
Print Book, English, ©2003
Teachers College Press, New York, ©2003
xiii, 129 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780807742891, 9780807742884, 0807742899, 0807742880
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Framing the inner-city teenager: criminals, consumers, and the literacy gap
Cameras and guns in the streets: teaching critical literacy in the documentary workshop
Dreams and nightmares: a case study of video in a classroom
Conclusion: Reimagining the school day