Healthy Teens, Healthy Schools (eBook)

How Media Literacy Education can Renew Education in the United States

Vanessa Domine (Autor)

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2015
140 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-1359-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Widespread obesity, poor nutrition, sleep-deprivation, and highly digital and sedentary lifestyles are just a few of the many challenges facing young people. Although public schools in the United States have the potential for meeting these challenges on a mass scale, they are slow to respond. The emphasis on discrete subject areas and standardized test performance offers little in the way of authentic learning and may in reality impede health. Healthy Teens, Healthy Schools: How Media Literacy Education can Renew Education in the United States reframes health education as a complex terrain that resides within a larger ecosystem of historical, social, political, and global economic forces. It calls for a media literate pedagogy that empowers students to be critical consumers, creative producers, and responsible citizens. This book illustrates holistic health education through school-community initiatives and innovative partnerships that are successful in magnifying all curriculum subjects and their associated teaching practices. Vanessa Domine offers teachers, teacher educators, school administrators, community organizers, public health professionals, and policy makers with a transmedia and transdisciplinary educational approach to adolescent health to demonstrate how our collective focus on cultivating healthy teens will ultimately yield healthy schools.

Autor

Vanessa Domine is associate professor in the Department of Secondary and Special Education at Montclair State University and the author of Rethinking Technology in Schools. She holds a doctorate in Media Ecology from New York University and is interested in how media and technology can support democratic practices in education.

Inhalt

ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionThe Pursuit of Health LiteracyA Media Literate Approach to HealthA Focus on AdolescenceHealthy Teens Through Healthy SchoolsAbout This BookPart I: Healthy Teens1—A Nation at RiskA Statistical SnapshotAn Obsession with Sugar and CaffeinePrescription Drug UseA Complicated Relationship With FoodA Sedentary and Technologized CultureThe Conundrum of ObesityObesity: Cause, Effect, or Both?Socio-Economic Disparities of ObesityMoving Beyond the Data2—A Social History of Media and HealthThe Moral Epoch of PrintThe Health Costs of IndustrializationHigh Schools as Moral CentersProtecting Youth in a Broadcast EraTV as (Processed) Food for ThoughtThe Impact of Instructional TV and FilmThe Perils of AdvertisingA Hyper-Focus on Media EffectsWhat Makes a Public Health Media Campaign Effective?New Technologies, New Challenges3—Teen Health—Is There An App for That?Health Communication 2.0Bridging the Digital Health DivideCrowdsourcing HealthThe Hazards of Data PersonalizationT2x: A Transmedia Approach to Teen HealthMedia Literacy: Asking Critical QuestionsHow Do Users Interpret Health Messages?How Is Health Constructed Through Mass Media? How Are Media Languages Used To Construct Health?What Values Are Associated With Health?Who Owns the Media Constructions of Health?Morphing Analysis into ActionPart II: Healthy Schools4—The Politics of Adolescent HealthLet's Move to PepsiUnder the InfluenceGovernment RegulationThe Political Battlefield of the School CafeteriaMaximizing Nutritional ValueThe Politics of Healthy SchoolsMoving Forward5—A Healthy CurriculumA Standards-Based ApproachLink to Academic AchievementA Mandate to IntegrateA Transdisciplinary ApproachLessons from NeverSecondsLessons from the Edible SchoolyardA Whole School Model6—It Takes a VillageMapping the VillageFamily EngagementPeer MentoringFarm to SchoolCulinary ProfessionalsSchool-University PartnershipsNon-Profit AlliancesMedia AdvocatesBeyond the VillageIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.5.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Sekundarstufe I+II
• Schlagworte: Education • Education policy reform • Library skills • Literacy • Media Literacy • Phonics • Reading • School reform
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-1359-7 / 1475813597
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-1359-3 / 9781475813593