Intermediality Teachers' Handbook of Critical Media Literacy |
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| Author:
| Semali, Ladislaus
Pailliotet, Ann Watts |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8133-3479-0 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1998 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $110.00 |
Book Description:
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Intermediality: Teachers’ Handbook of Critical Media Literacy challenges the practice of teaching the classics and the canon of acceptable literary works far removed from students’ experiences, with emphasis on across-the-curriculum teaching of critical thinking, critical reading, and critical viewing skills. The authors, Ladislaus Semali and Ann Watts Pailliotet, present literacy education as "intermedial” in nature--it entails constructing connections...
More Description Intermediality: Teachers’ Handbook of Critical Media Literacy challenges the practice of teaching the classics and the canon of acceptable literary works far removed from students’ experiences, with emphasis on across-the-curriculum teaching of critical thinking, critical reading, and critical viewing skills. The authors, Ladislaus Semali and Ann Watts Pailliotet, present literacy education as "intermedial” in nature--it entails constructing connections among varying conceptions and sign systems. Reading printed texts requires more than simply decoding letters into words or sounds; it involves finding meaning, motive, structure, and affect. The same goes for reading the electronic text. Intermediality argues for the discourse of literacy to take up a critical stance by examining a whole wide array of texts that form the meaning-making process of the looming information age.