Decolonizing Media Education through Body and Performance. Routledge Research in Media Literacy and Education

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Title: Decolonizing Media Education through Body and Performance. Routledge Research in Media Literacy and Education
Language: English
Authors: Alexis Romero Walker
Source: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2025.
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Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 144
Publication Date: 2025
Intended Audience: Teachers; Researchers
Document Type: Book
Reports - Evaluative
Descriptors: Decolonization, Media Education, Media Literacy, Equal Education, Intersectionality, Educational Change, Critical Literacy, Hidden Curriculum, Performance, Theory Practice Relationship, Teaching Methods, Films
ISBN: 978-1-03-295917-7
Abstract: This book explores the ways in which educators in media programs at colleges and universities can work toward decolonizing the curriculum and implementing necessary practices of media literacy to help students become more responsible media practitioners. Taking an autoethnographic approach and reflecting on their experiences as a student and educator with an intersectional identity, the author proposes that for media education to instil positive change in the media industry, there must be a more direct objective of decolonizing media education. Looking specifically at how media education programs lack an understanding of how to make their courses more equitable, they propose an ambitious start to decolonize media education: by dismantling current classroom norms and rebuilding from the perspective of performance, as it is connected to the bodies of those in the classroom and the field, we can build a critical media literacy framework to make education equitable. This insightful book will support media educators in higher education, as well as k-12 media educators, instructional designers, and media researchers.
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2026
Access URL: https://www.routledge.com/Decolonizing-Media-Education-Through-Body-and-Performance/Walker/p/book/9781032959177
Accession Number: ED680697
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:This book explores the ways in which educators in media programs at colleges and universities can work toward decolonizing the curriculum and implementing necessary practices of media literacy to help students become more responsible media practitioners. Taking an autoethnographic approach and reflecting on their experiences as a student and educator with an intersectional identity, the author proposes that for media education to instil positive change in the media industry, there must be a more direct objective of decolonizing media education. Looking specifically at how media education programs lack an understanding of how to make their courses more equitable, they propose an ambitious start to decolonize media education: by dismantling current classroom norms and rebuilding from the perspective of performance, as it is connected to the bodies of those in the classroom and the field, we can build a critical media literacy framework to make education equitable. This insightful book will support media educators in higher education, as well as k-12 media educators, instructional designers, and media researchers.
ISBN:978-1-03-295917-7