Teaching Youth Media : A Critical Guide to Literacy, Video Production, & Social Change

Foreword ix Maxine Greene Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1(3) Critical Literacy: Reading the Dominant Medium 4(4) The Factory System of Schooling 8(2) Attempts to Go Beyond the Factory System: Teaching With and About the Media 10(8) Working Toward Synthesis at EVC 18(2) Closing the Disconnect 20(3) Framing the Inner-City Teenager: Criminals, Consumers, and the Literacy Gap 23(14) Two Systems of Authority 24(1) And Justice for Some 25(1) Selling Teen Rebellion 26(1) Youth Culture Spies 27(2) Empowered to Speak for Themselves 29(2) Multiple Literacies: Reading and Writing the Media 31(6) Cameras and Guns in the Streets: Teaching Critical Literacy in the Documentary Workshop 37(24) The Doc Workshop 38(2) Out on a Shoot 40(1) Talking and Watching Words 41(2) Self-Portraits 43(2) Making It Public 45(3) Trusting Information 48(2) Local Interpreters 50(1) Out on a Shoot (Revisited) 51(3) Teaching and Learning in the Zone of Proximal Development 54(7) Dreams and Nightmares: A Case Study of Video in a Classroom 61(38) Setting the Context: A Community Under Siege 64(1) The Class 65(1) Logging 66(4) Choosing a Group Topic 70(14) Interviewing 84(6) Reflections and Releases 90(6) Tranformations 96(3) Conclusion: Reimagining the School Day 99(14) Barriers in School 100(2) Opportunities After School 102(2) Youth Media as Civic Engagement 104(1) Social Capital 105(2) Reimagining the School Day 107(2) Documentation, Reflection, and Staff Development 109(1) Student Voices 109(4) References 113(4) Suggested Works 117(2) Index 119(10) About the Author 129