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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Pursuit of Health Literacy
A Media Literate Approach to Health
A Focus on Adolescence
Healthy Teens Through Healthy Schools
About This Book
Part I: Healthy Teens
1-A Nation at Risk
A Statistical Snapshot
An Obsession with Sugar and Caffeine
Prescription Drug Use
A Complicated Relationship With Food
A Sedentary and Technologized Culture
The Conundrum of Obesity
Obesity: Cause, Effect, or Both?
Socio-Economic Disparities of Obesity
Moving Beyond the Data
2-A Social History of Media and Health
The Moral Epoch of Print
The Health Costs of Industrialization
High Schools as Moral Centers
Protecting Youth in a Broadcast Era
TV as (Processed) Food for ThoughtThe Impact of Instructional TV and Film
The Perils of Advertising
A Hyper-Focus on Media Effects
What Makes a Public Health Media Campaign Effective?
New Technologies, New Challenges
3-Teen Health-Is There An App for That?
Health Communication 2.0
Bridging the Digital Health Divide
Crowdsourcing Health
The Hazards of Data Personalization
T2x: A Transmedia Approach to Teen Health
Media Literacy: Asking Critical Questions
How 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 Action
Part II: Healthy Schools
4-The Politics of Adolescent Health
Let's Move to Pepsi
Under the Influence
Government Regulation
The Political Battlefield of the School Cafeteria
Maximizing Nutritional Value
The Politics of Healthy Schools
Moving Forward
5-A Healthy Curriculum
A Standards-Based Approach
Link to Academic Achievement
A Mandate to Integrate
A Transdisciplinary Approach
Lessons from NeverSeconds
Lessons from the Edible Schoolyard
A Whole School Model6-It Takes a VillageMapping the Village
Family Engagement
Peer Mentoring
Farm to School
Culinary Professionals
School-University Partnerships
Non-Profit Alliances
Media Advocates
Beyond the Village
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
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.
Zusammenfassung
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 litera...
