Parenting through pop culture : essays on navigating media with children / edited by JL Schatz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schatz, J. L., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and children.

Internet and children.

Parenting.

Physical Description:

viii, 158 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]

Summary:

""With the ever-increasing amount of media children are consuming, it has become important for parents to learn how to help them navigate this consumption productively. All too often, the only approach to screen time by parents is a question of limiting how much and what kind. Instead, if parents and educators can adopt a more nuanced relationship to media and education, adults and children can come together in order to engage with and deconstruct the messages that are embedded in popular culture. This enables children to become more informed citizens while also enabling parents to understand the issues that their kids are going through in new ways. This collection seeks to do just that by providing a series of essays on different strategies to engage children with varying topics and programming to ensure that media consumption is an active process that promotes social and political awareness instead of apathetic entertainment. Specific examples touched on in this book include environmental destruction, animal rights, colonialism, race, gender, scientific or political neutrality, teamwork and inclusion, imagination, self-worth, and activism. Figuring out ways to navigate these issues with children is essential for creating a better world and altering the media landscape of tomorrow."-Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Making Sure Media Matters / J L Schatz

Parents? We Don't Need No Stinking Parents: A Discussion of Television's Pursuit of a Parentless Society / Ryan Vaughan

Un-Parented Children: Media's Message to Combat / Charity Gibson

Cloudy with a Chance of Ecological Justice: Creating Alternative Storylines for Children / Amber E. George and Jacob E. Gindi

Funneling Fatherhood, Masculinity and the Super-Dad Through a Critique of Mr. Incredible and Ant-Man / Anne Bialowas and Ryan Cheek

Social Media and the Activist Child / Mike Catello

Curious George Explores the Diaspora: Postcolonial Children's Literary Criticism / Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre

Odd Squad Pedagogy: Learning from Children Together as a Team / Kevin D. Kuswa

Lying Our Way to Truth: The Fun of Exploring Life with Calvin and Hobbes / Amar Singh

What Is Beauty, What Is Beast? The Bill Edutainment Value of Condon's Beauty and the Beast / Debaditya Mukhopadhya

The Mediation of Scientific Neutrality: She-Ra's Warning of Erring Toward Evil Through Disinterested Inquiry / J L Schatz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781476676944

1476676941

OCLC:

1129099076