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Paula Alysha Becerra Glover – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The growing and pervasive presence of technology and media in the lives of children reveals the need for incorporating critical media literacy instruction into the official curriculum of schools. The purpose of this qualitative, narrative study was to examine how American middle school girls experience the documentary film "Girl Rising."…
Descriptors: Females, Films, Self Concept, Critical Literacy
Buchanan, Lisa Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This descriptive case study describes the use of documentary film to teach historical thinking in one undergraduate elementary social studies methods course. The study was situated within a teacher education program at a midsized public university in the Southeastern United States. Eighteen students were enrolled in the course. Of the eighteen…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Civil Rights, Social Studies
Parker Beard, Jeannie – ProQuest LLC, 2012
When college composition teachers carefully consider the role and function of multimodal composition in their classrooms, they can enhance the teaching of writing and communication, engage and empower students, and better prepare students for the challenges and possibilities of life in our rapidly changing digital age. To meet this teaching…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Intermode Differences, Writing Instruction, Multimedia Instruction