Media Education Books

New and Published Books

1. The Media Teacher's Handbook

   Edited by Elaine Scarratt, Jon Davison

   The Media Teacher’s Handbook is an indispensible guide for all teachers, both specialist and non-specialist, delivering Media Studies and media education in secondary schools and colleges. It is the first text to draw together the three key elements of secondary sector teaching in relation to...

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
2. Media Literacy

   New Agendas in Communication

   Edited by Kathleen Tyner

   Series: New Agendas in Communication Series

   This volume explores how educators can leverage student proficiency with new literacies for learning in formal and informal educational environments. It also investigates critical literacy practices that can best respond to the proliferation of new media in society. What sorts of media education...

   Published November 10th 2009 by Routledge
3. Media Literacies

   Edited by Margaret Mackey

   Series: Major Themes in Education

   The past century has witnessed an ever-accelerating revolution in the ways by which we communicate with each other, and that revolution is far from complete. Understanding how our literacy skills and behaviours are evolving—how we make use of old technologies and adapt to new ones—and how critical...

   Published December 19th 2007 by Routledge
4. Critical Thinking About Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media

   Media Literacy Applications

   Edited by Mary-Lou Galician, Debra L. Merskin

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   This distinctive volume explores how romantic coupleship is represented in books, magazines, popular music, movies, television, and the Internet within entertainment, advertising, and news/information. This reader offers diverse theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches on the...

   Published October 18th 2006 by Routledge
5. Children and Television

   Fifty Years of Research

   Edited by Norma Pecora, John P. Murray, Ellen Ann Wartella

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   This seminal volume is a comprehensive review of the literature on children's television, covering fifty years of academic research on children and television. The work includes studies of content, effects, and policy, and offers research conducted by social scientists and cultural studies...

   Published October 15th 2006 by Routledge
6. Assessing Media Education

   A Resource Handbook for Educators and Administrators: Component 1: Measurement

   Edited by William G. Christ

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   The chapters included in this component of Assessing Media Education are intended for those who have already developed an assessment plan and identified key student learning outcomes, and who need more information on how to measure the outcomes both indirectly and directly....

   Published June 29th 2006 by Routledge
7. Assessing Media Education

   A Resource Handbook for Educators and Administrators: Component 2: Case Studies

   Edited by William G. Christ

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   This component of Assessing Media Education is intended for those who would like to know how other schools have grappled with implementing assessment initiatives, and who have used assessment to improve their programs....

   Published June 29th 2006 by Routledge
8. Assessing Media Education

   A Resource Handbook for Educators and Administrators: Component 3: Developing an Assessment Plan

   Edited by William G. Christ

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   The chapters in this component of Assessing Media Education are valuable for those who need to know how to develop an assessment plan....

   Published June 29th 2006 by Routledge
9. Assessing Media Education

   A Resource Handbook for Educators and Administrators

   Edited by William G. Christ

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   Assessing Media Education provides guidelines for media educators and administrators in higher education media programs who are creating or improving student-learning assessment strategies. Covering the topics and categories established by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass...

   Published January 26th 2006 by Routledge
10. Toys, Games, and Media

    Edited by Jeffrey Goldstein, David Buckingham, Gilles Brougere

    This book is a state-of-the-art look at where toys have come from and where they are likely to go in the years ahead. The focus is on the interplay between traditional toys and play, and toys and play that are mediated by or combined with digital technology. As well as covering the technical...

    Published July 14th 2005 by Psychology Press