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Peer reviewedMcBrien, J. Lynn – Educational Leadership, 1999
Adults cannot adequately prevent their children from observing media messages. Students are actually safer if they are educated about analyzing and assessing unsavory messages for themselves. Appropriate media-literacy pedagogy involves five essential elements: background, tools, deconstruction of media techniques, product evaluation, and original…
Descriptors: Advertising, Censorship, Critical Thinking, Critical Viewing
Direct linkMcBrien, J. Lynn – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2005
Much has been written about the power of media to influence the public through instruments of advertising and a variety of venues (Considine & Haley, 1999; Cortes, 2000; Kilbourne, 1999). In this chapter, the author has chosen to use a singular media focus--news--to support the critical importance of teaching media literacy skills to students. She…
Descriptors: Muslims, Democracy, Critical Thinking, Media Literacy
