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Media, Education, and Changereviewed by Jill Jameson — 2002 Title: Media, Education, and Change Author(s): Lesley L. Johnson Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing, New York ISBN: 082044281X , Pages: 182, Year: 2001 Search for book at Amazon.com Media literacy education reflectively and purposefully delivered
has the power to transform the lives of teachers and students in
beneficial ways, enabling greater self-knowledge, personal growth
and useful professional insights. This is the restorative vision of
Media, Education and Change - an excellent book delivering
media literacy education vividly in a direct way for those wishing
to engage with the possibilities of media literary education as a
change agent for teachers, and "how and why they teach." Lesley
Johnson's well-researched, diligent, and passionate exploration
into the connectivity possible among media theory, teachers'
reflections on media representations of their identities, and the
application of media to classroom practice has resulted in a useful
interdisciplinary study offering personal and professional insights
for media educators. Johnson's work adds considerably to
scholarship in the field of media literacy education by extending
the boundaries of the theoretical framework conventionally
considered applicable in this area to include significant new
contributions provided by receptive aesthetics, intermodal
expressive therapy, and the technologies of the self relating... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Jill Jameson
University of Greenwich E-mail Author Jill Jameson is the Director of Lifelong Learning at the University of Greenwich, a senior manager post working with all Schools and Partner Colleges of the University. With 23 years’ background in education, Jill gained a PhD and MA (distinction) in research in hypermedia and computers in education from the School of Education, King’s College, University of London, and is an MA English Literature graduate of the University of Cambridge, with an MA in Language and Literature in Education from Goldsmith’s College. Her current research in the field of e-learning and the virtual university is reported in “Overcoming Key Barriers in the Implementation of an e-University” (WebNet 2001 International Conference on the WWW and the Internet in October, 2001).
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