Rethinking Media Literacy: A Critical Pedagogy of Representation

by Peter McLaren, Rhonda Hammer, David Sholle

Who creates the cultural landscape we experience? When we watch the evening news, are we receiving unrevised information straight from the day's headlines or is it positioned in such a way as to 'manufacture consent,' as Chomsky put it? These are just two of the fascinating questions posed by the authors of this collection as they develop a new form of media literacy that encourages students to become critical readers of the media that attempts to shape their experience. This is an intriguing and wide-ranging critique that makes the perfect text for a variety of courses including curriculum studies, critical pedagogy, media studies, cultural studies and political science.

Genres: Education

260 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1995

About the author

Professor in the Division of Urban Schooling, the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (United States). He is the author and editor of forty-five books and hundreds of scholarly articles and chapters. His writings have been translated into 20 languages.

He is known as one of the leading architects of critical pedagogy and for his scholarly writings on critical literacy, the sociology of education, cultural studies, critical ethnography, and Marxist theory. He has developed a reputation for his uncompromising political analysis influenced by a Marxist humanist philosophy and a unique literary style of expression. His scholarship and political activism have taken him throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

Reviews

[Hannah Lulu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dense reading but brave, bold, insightful thesis!

[Alexis Romero Walker · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good hosh posh of using media literacy practices in higher education classrooms. Mostly separate articles put together in a book, so you could pick a chapter and just read that article.