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Healthy teens, healthy schools : how media literacy education can renew education in the United States / Vanessa Domine.
Van Pelt Library LB1588.U6 D66 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Domine, Vanessa Elaine, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health education--United States.
- Health education.
- Media literacy--Study and teaching.
- Media literacy.
- Schools--Health promotion services.
- Schools.
- United States.
- Schools--Health promotion services--United States.
- Students--Health and hygiene--United States.
- Students.
- Students--Health and hygiene.
- Media literacy--Study and teaching--United States.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 121 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
- Summary:
- Widespread obesity, poor nutrition, steep deprivation, and highly digital and sedentary lifestyles are just a few of the many challenges facing young people. Although public schools in the United States have the potential for meeting these challenges on a mass scale, they are slow to respond. The emphasis on discrete subject areas and standardized test performance offers little in the way of authentic learning and may in reality impede health. 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. Vanessa Domine calls for a media-literate pedagogy that empowers students to be critical consumers, creative producers, and responsible citizens. This book illustrates holistic health education through school-community initiatives and innovative partnerships that are successful in magnifying all curriculum subjects and their associated teaching practices. Domine offers teachers, teacher educators, school administrators, community organizers, public health professionals, and policymakers with a transmedia and transdisciplinary educational approach to adolescent health to demonstrate how our collective focus on cultivating healthy teens will ultimately yield healthy schools. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 A Nation at Risk 15
- A Statistical Snapshot 15
- The Conundrum of Obesity 20
- Moving beyond the Data 25
- Notes 26
- 2 A Social History of Media and Health 33
- The Moral Epoch of Print 33
- Protecting Youth in a Broadcast Era 37
- A Hyper-Focus on Media Effects 44
- What Makes a Public Health Media Campaign Effective? 46
- New Technologies, New Challenges 49
- Notes 49
- 3 Teen Health: Is There an App for That? 55
- Health Communication 2.0 55
- T2x: A Transmedia Approach to Teen Health 61
- Media Literacy: Asking Critical Questions 62
- Morphing Analysis into Action 68
- Notes 69
- 4 The Politics of Adolescent Health 73
- Let's Move to Pepsi 73
- Under the Influence 75
- Government Regulation 77
- The Political Battlefield of the School Cafeteria 78
- Moving Forward 82
- Notes 83
- 5 A Healthy Curriculum 87
- A Standards-Based Approach 88
- A Transdisciplinary Approach 93
- A Whole School Model 98
- Notes 99
- 6 It Takes a Village 103
- Mapping the Village 104
- Beyond the Village 110
- Notes 111.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781475813562
- 1475813562
- 9781475813586
- 1475813589
- OCLC:
- 898158316
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