Transformative Practice in Critical Media Literacy: Radical Democracy and Decolonized Pedagogy in Higher Education

Transformative Practice in Critical Media Literacy brings together a diverse selection of essays to examine the knowledge production crisis in higher education and the role that news media and technology play in this process.

This text highlights the importance of radical pedagogy and critical media literacy to fight back and reclaim higher education as the battleground for democracy and the embodiment of citizenship. Using a global and social justice lens, it explores the transformative potential of critical media literacy in higher education. It also provides real examples of current critical media literacy practices around the globe and of successful experiences inside classrooms. In an era of fake news, this text fulfils the yearning for critical media literacy to permeate higher education by drawing together practitioners and scholars speaking to journalism students, teacher candidates, and to students, scholars, and activists across a variety of spaces in higher education.

This book will be a key resource for scholars, students, policymakers, community members and activists interested in education, politics, youth studies, critical theory, intersectionality, social justice and peace studies, activism, critical media literacy, communication, or media studies.

Steve Gennaro is a critical theorist, philosopher of technology, award-winning educator, and child rights activist. He is also one of the founding members of the Children, Childhood, and Youth Studies Program at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Nolan Higdon is a Lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.

Michael Hoechsmann is a Professor of Education and Adjunct Professor of Media, Film, and Communications at Lakehead University (Orillia).