Visual pedagogy [electronic book] : media cultures in and beyond the classroom / Brian Goldfarb.
By: Goldfarb, Brian [author].
Material type: BookPublisher: Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Description: online resource (x, 263 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 0822329646 (paperback); 9780822384052 (e-book).Subject(s): Mass media and education | Audio-visual education -- Social aspects | Critical pedagogyDDC classification: 371.335 Online resources: E-bookItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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e-BOOK | MTU Bishopstown Library eBook | 371.335 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan |
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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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-258) and index.
Electronic reproduction:. Dawson Books. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Electronic reproduction:. ProQuest LibCentral. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: An Ethos of Visual Pedagogy
- Part 1 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 2 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: Sao Paulo's TV Anhembi
- Appendix: An Annotated List of Media Organizations, Distributors, and Resources
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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CHOICE Review
The early transformation toward visual and media pedagogues globally and across areas beyond education remains relatively underexamined in critical pedagogy. Goldfarb's book steps into a breach in our understanding about the role of the visual and media in the broad cultures of education and pedagogy during the late 20th century. The author challenges the belief that the visual occupies a lower level of knowledge than writing, a view that held sway not only in mainstream educational policy at mid-century but also in the theories of media in education. The volume goes beyond a strong advocacy position regarding the activist and even revolutionary potential of technical hands-on practice in classrooms to examine the more complicated politics of agency implicit in much Left critical pedagogy and to challenge the overarching suspicion of engagement with popular media and mainstream institutions that runs throughout that body of work. The chapters are grouped in two parts. Part 1 is generally concerned with projects occurring in or closely linked to school settings. Part 2 takes as its focus the pedagogical techniques and strategies of media projects outside formal educational institutions. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. All levels. L. R. Baxter University of VictoriaAuthor notes provided by Syndetics
Brian Goldfarb is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. He was Curator of Education at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City from 1993 to 1997.