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Media literacy for reading master's students.

Academic Exchange Quarterly

| September 22, 2006 | Flores-Koulish, Stephanie; Deal, Debby | COPYRIGHT 2006 Rapid Intellect Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Abstract

Twenty-first century teachers of reading should be knowledgeable of critical media literacy. This paper describes efforts to include a mandatory course on critical media literacy within a reading master's program. Using course reflective data, we describe students' reactions, ranging from complete unawareness to frustration over its relationship to reading instruction to discomfort with ideological claims. Finally, we preliminarily discuss the course's impact.

Introduction

Literacy has moved off the page and beyond the keyboard to encompass the media around us (Turbill, 2002). "The term multiliteracies acknowledges the multiplicity of ...

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