>Dear all,
>
>In February we asked for your details to develop and maintain an up-to-date
>directory of research in the field of children and media. This directory
>would act as a resource for fellow researchers, students and other
>interested parties. It would also be a valuable sources of information for
>journalists seeking an informed response to perenniel concerns about
>children and media. This directory will be published on the web-site at the
>Centre for Study of Children, Youth and Media at the Institute of Education.
>
>We received a great number of contributions from active researchers in the
>field, showing research around children and media covered many areas from
>advertising, to news to uses of television, video, film and new media. To
>make it a valuable resource a wider number of contributions are being sought
>and we ask you to take a short amount of time to return your details for
>inclusion. Essentially the information should be delivered under the
>following headings:
>
>- Name and full contact address, telephone number
Lee Rother, 244 Avalon, Rosemere, Quebec, J7A 3C8, 450-621-8267
>- Email and web-site address: [log in to unmask]
>- One line title of current or research completed in last two years
The Impact of Media Education on the Literate Behaviour of At-risk
High school students. (doctoral thesis)
>- Summary of research - no more than 50 words
Using a re-conceptualisation of literacy, I devised and taught a
curriculum in which the students produced (wrote) and analysed (read)
populart media texts. I examined the behaviour of these students as they
undertook the writing and reading activities. Through this inquiry I
developed insights into the literate behaviour and abilities that at-risk
students possess and can democstrate, which traditional measures of
literacy were unable to uncover. I also developed pedagogical approaches
which enable the literacy of not only at-risk students, but all students.
>- Up to 5 key words literacy, media education, critical pedagogy,
>at-risk students
>- List of recent publications.
Media Education as Literacy Education (with Prof. Winston Emery)
co-authored Media Files: a resource for secondary teachers
Using Media to develop Students' Literacy
other publications associated with media education and published in
various
magazines.
>
>All participants who have already returned their details need not do so
>again.
>
>With thanks.
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