Visual Pedagogy

Media Cultures in and beyond the Classroom

Autor: Goldfarb, Brian
Editor: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822329367
eISBN Pdf: 9780822384052
Lloc de publicació: Durham , United States
Any de publicació digital: 2002
Mes: Octubre
Pàgines: 280
DDC: 371.335
Idioma: Anglés

Descripció

In classrooms, museums, health clinics and beyond, the educational uses of visual media have proliferated over the past fifty years. Film, video, television, and digital media have been integral to the development of new pedagogical theories and practices, globalization processes, and identity and community formation. Yet, Brian Goldfarb argues, the educational roles of visual technologies have not been fully understood or appreciated. He contends that in order to understand the intersections of new media and learning, we need to recognize the sweeping scope of the technologically infused visual pedagogy—both in and outside the classroom. From Samoa to the United States mainland to Africa and Brazil, from museums to city streets, Visual Pedagogy explores the educational applications of visual media in different institutional settings during the past half century.

Looking beyond the popular media texts and mainstream classroom technologies that are the objects of most analyses of media and education, Goldfarb encourages readers to see a range of media subcultures as pedagogical tools. The projects he analyzes include media produced by AIDS/HIV advocacy groups and social services agencies for classroom use in the 1990s; documentary and fictional cinemas of West Africa used by the French government and then by those resisting it; museum exhibitions; and TV Anhembi, a municipally sponsored collaboration between the television industry and community-based videographers in São Paolo, Brazil.

Combining media studies, pedagogical theory, and art history, and including an appendix of visual media resources and ideas about the most productive ways to utilize visual technologies for educational purposes, Visual Pedagogy will be useful to educators, administrators, and activists.

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction: An Ethos of Visual Pedagogy
Part One. Historicizing New Technologies in the Classroom
- 1. Media and Global Education: Television’s Debut in Classrooms from Washington, D.C., to American Samoa
- 2. Students as Producers: Critical Video Production
- 3. Critical Pedagogy at the End of the Rainbow Curriculum: Media Activism in the Sphere of Sex Ed
- 4. Peer Education and Interactivity: Youth Cultures and New Media Technologies in Schools and Beyond
Part Two. Visual Pedagogy beyond Schools
- 5. Museum Pedagogy: The Blockbuster Exhibition as Educational Technology
- 6. A Pedagogical Cinema: Development Theory, Colonialism, and Postliberation African Film
- 7. Local Television and Community Politics in Brazil: São Paulo’s TV Anhembi
Appendix: An Annotated List of Media Organizations, Distributors, and Resources
Notes
Bibliography
Index