Description |
1 online resource (viii, 158 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: Making Sure Media Matters / J L Schatz -- Parents? We Don't Need No Stinking Parents: A Discussion of Television's Pursuit of a Parentless Society / Ryan Vaughan -- Un-Parented Children: Media's Message to Combat / Charity Gibson -- Cloudy with a Chance of Ecological Justice: Creating Alternative Storylines for Children / Amber E. George and Jacob E. Gindi -- Funneling Fatherhood, Masculinity and the Super-Dad Through a Critique of Mr. Incredible and Ant-Man / Anne Bialowas and Ryan Cheek -- Social Media and the Activist Child / Mike Catello -- Curious George Explores the Diaspora: Postcolonial Children's Literary Criticism / Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre -- Odd Squad Pedagogy: Learning from Children Together as a Team / Kevin D. Kuswa -- Lying Our Way to Truth: The Fun of Exploring Life with Calvin and Hobbes / Amar Singh -- What Is Beauty, What Is Beast? The Bill Edutainment Value of Condon's Beauty and the Beast / Debaditya Mukhopadhya -- The Mediation of Scientific Neutrality: She-Ra's Warning of Erring Toward Evil Through Disinterested Inquiry / J L Schatz. |
Summary |
"With the ever-increasing amount of media children are consuming, it has become important for parents to learn how to help them navigate this consumption productively. All too often, the only approach to screen time by parents is a question of limiting how much and what kind. Instead, if parents and educators can adopt a more nuanced relationship to media and education, adults and children can come together in order to engage with and deconstruct the messages that are embedded in popular culture. This enables children to become more informed citizens while also enabling parents to understand the issues that their kids are going through in new ways. This collection seeks to do just that by providing a series of essays on different strategies to engage children with varying topics and programming to ensure that media consumption is an active process that promotes social and political awareness instead of apathetic entertainment. Specific examples touched on in this book include environmental destruction, animal rights, colonialism, race, gender, scientific or political neutrality, teamwork and inclusion, imagination, self-worth, and activism. Figuring out ways to navigate these issues with children is essential for creating a better world and altering the media landscape of tomorrow."--Provided by publisher. |
Subject |
Mass media and children.
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Internet and children.
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Parenting.
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Internet and children. (OCoLC)fst00977226
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Mass media and children. (OCoLC)fst01011332
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Parenting. (OCoLC)fst01053407
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Added Author |
Schatz, J. L., editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: 9781476676944 1476676941 (DLC) 2020005065 (OCoLC)1129099076 |
ISBN |
9781476639796 (electronic book) |
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1476639795 (electronic book) |
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