Defines new literacies and explores their place in school curricula. Contends that what is missing is a method of reading and understanding the new languages of media that would enable educators to produce meaning that enhances lives and rejects the oppression that privileges some students and denies other students' voice. (PM)

Articulates, through a critical analysis of Atlantic Canada's latest secondary English language arts curriculum documents, the expansion of traditionally understood conceptions of literacy to include information, media, and visual literacies. Examines the specific nature and extent to which technology and computer-mediated curricula are used to…

Although schools in many countries have initiated mass media education, American schools still give little consideration to any systematic study of the mass media. Students are particularly in need of learning how to apply basic critical viewing concepts to watching television, the most powerful and ubiquitous of the mass media. Most researchers…