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Ahrens, Frank (1997), 'Parents get tuned in to kids' TV', Washington Post March 18. A parent/school initiative in media education in Maryland. Archer, Steve (1996), 'Pop, pleasure and pedagogy', The English & Media Magazine 34, Summer. Teaching pop music for Media Studies GCSE.

Aplin, Patrice (1999), `Helping children take an active interest in TV', The Press (Christchurch), Feb 2. Reports on the activities of the NZ Children's Television Foundation.

Armitage, Catherine (1998), 'Pop makes the grade', Weekend Australian Sept 12-13. The proposed NSW Higher School Certificate is likely to include examination of contemporary media, and media events, taking their place alongside Shakespeare.

Baker, Steve (2000), `Real teachers in virtual classrooms', The English & Media Magazine 41, Spring. Investigates the use of the Internet by English students, to research for work in Media Studies.

Bazalgette, Cary (1996), 'Beyond the province of enthusiasts: re-establishing media education', The English & Media Magazine 34, Summer. A keynote address to a conference of English teachers identifies the problems and possibilities of media education.

Bazalgette, Cary (1995), 'Not all the news is fit to print', TES December 15. The 'dangerous delusion' of continuing to regard print as the dominant medium for teaching.

Bowker, Julian (1995), 'Research into media literacy/education: the second wave - now it's started what next? Paper to the National Media Literacy Conference, Boone NC, Sept. Julian describes his on-going research on initiatives in media learning in British schools. (Note:this is only paper I brought back from Boone--actual papers were scarce)

Bragg, Sara (1995), 'It Makes You Feel Like A Man': teaching and watching horror', The English & Media Magazine 32, Summer. A British teacher argues for teaching hoprror film in the classroom, starting from the social use of such films by her students.

Buckingham, David (1996), 'Critical pedagogy and media education: a theory in search of a practice', Journal of Curriculum Studies 28:6. Examines recent theoretical work on 'critical pedagogy' and its relationship to media education and classroom practice.Probably the best person to write on such matters!

Buckingham, David (1996), 'The last big thing?', Media Education Journal 20, Summer. Continues the refrain of the article above, arguing that 'it is vital that media educators continue to examine their own practice', particularly since 'the distinctions between videos, computer games, movies, TV shows, advertisements and prinred media have become increasingly irrelevant'.

Buckingham, David (1998), 'Media education in the UK: moving beyond protectionism', Journal of Communication Winter. The history of media education in the vUK, in a special issue of JoC devoted to perspectives on media education.

Burgess, Marya (1998), 'A Mickey Mouse degree?', The Times Higher May 15. Examines the persistent prejudice in journalism against media studies.

Cole, George (1995), 'Putting the viewer in control', TES Oct 27. The success of video-on-demand trials in British schools.

Coughlan, Sean & G. Macdonald (1996), 'Parties offer stake in future', TES May 10. A report on a TES/BFI conference on education and the moving image.

Cuff, John Haslett (1996), 'Media-literacy guru needs an angel', The Globe and Mail Dec 2. Canada's national newspaper profiles the work of media educator John Pungente, andthe uncertain future his Jesuit Communication Project faces.

Curry, Ramona (2000), `Connecting Film/Media Studies to student experiences', Cinema Journal 30.4 Summer. A short introduction leads into ways of teaching film history through writing , and teaching film cross-culturally.

Davies, Andrew (1995), 'TV/Film Masterclass', TES Aug 25. Advice on scripting film and television drama from a noted screenwriter. One of a series called 'Masterclass'--other were on writing novels, short stories and children's fiction.

Durant, Alan (2000), `What future for interpretative work in Film and Media Studies?', Screen 41:1, Spring. Revisiting David Brodwell's arguments (in Making Meaning), this article stresses the need for more serious engagement with the mechanisms of meaning production and meaning attribution in film and television.

Flood, James & D. Lapp (1994), 'Broadening the lens: toward an expanded conceptualization of literacy'. In Perspectives On Literacy Research and Practice. Forty-fourth Yearbook of The National Reading Conference An interesting contribution to a forum dominated by print, which argues for teaching both with and about media.

Gold, Karen (1996), 'Testing the tube in class', TES May 17. A British school experiment in interactive television.

Greenaway, Peter (1999), 'Teaching art in a mass media world', Paper to the InSEA 30th World Congress, Brisbane, Sept 21-26. Argues that art teaching is not just about what is found in art galleries but also about popular culture.

Henry, Neil (1998), 'Journalism education: a lost cause?', The Chronicle of Higher Education Sept 25. Argues that the current state of the US news media seldom set a good example to those entering the profession.

Hobbs, Renee (1997), `Literacy for the Information Age', in Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts (International Reading Association). Other contributions to this large volume (`Handbook' is a real misnomer!) include: Roger Desmond, `TV viewing, reading and media literacy'; Colette Daiute `Youth genre in the classroom: can children's and teachers' cultures meet?' and Joan M. Shiring `The future of television in the home and in the classroom: evidence for impact'.

Hobbs, Renee (1998), 'The Seven Great Debates in the Media Literacy movement', Journal of Communication Winter. Why North Americans fail to agree on what media education is, or should be.

Holt, Maurice (1996), 'The making of Casablanca and the making of curriculum', Journal of Curriculum Studies 28:3. An unusual article, which uses the process of film-making as a model for creating effective and popular curr iculum change.

Hooper, Robert A. (1997), 'teaching film and television in developing nations: a Malaysian case study', Journal of Film and Video 48.4, Winter. Useful for teaching with foreign students.

Hotere, Andrea (1996), 'Shortland end of the stick', NZ Education Review, Sept 27-Oct 3. An interview with Barbara Cairns, co-author of Shortland Street: Production, Text and Audience, presenting the case for media teaching.

Holt, Maurice (1996), 'The making of Casablanca and the making of curriculum', Journal of Curriculum Studies 28:3 . An unusual article, which uses the process of film-making as a model for creating effective and popular curr iculum change.

Jenkins, Henry (1998), 'Empowering children in the digital age: towards a radical media pedagogy', Radical Teacher 50. One of the best articles on media teaching to appear for some time--all the more surprising that it comes from an American source, as it avoids over-simplication and the usual alarms. Highly recommended! This isue of Radical Teacher is devoted to Media Studies, with articles by Alexandra Juhasz 'Making AIDS video as radical pedagogy', Gene Michaud 'Class conflicts: teaching the war film', David Owen and Charles Silet 'Changing perception, not just channels, in the heartland: teaching television's teaching', Peter Lemish & Devorah feldash 'Exposing indifference'

Kirshner, Jonathan (1996), 'Alfred Hitchcock and the art of research', PS: Political Science & Politics Sept. An uunusual approach to teaching graduate research, using Hitchcock's approach to film production as an exemplar.

Kouvaros, George (1997), 'On dangerous ground: film studies in Australia', Screen 38:1, Spring. The unstable state of academic film studies in Australia.

Landy, Marcia (1997), 'Film and English/American studies: what are we doing in an English department?', Critical Quarterly 39:1. The difficulties of finding a comfortable home for film studies.

Ljunggren, Carsten (1996), 'Education, media and democracy: on communication and the nature of the public in the light of John Dewey, Walter Lippmann and the discussion of modernity', Journal of Curriculum Studies 28:1, Jan-Feb. A very long-winded title for long discussion of media education in Swedish schools.

Mastrolia, Barbara Ann (1997), 'The media deprivation experience:revealing mass media as both message and massage', Communication eEducation 46, July. The idea that you can sensitise student to media by depriving them of it.

Megee, Mary (1997), 'Students need media literacy: the new basic', The Education Digest September. Approaches to media education in the USA.

Newell, A.R. (1995), 'Video production: process not product', Journal of Educational Television 21:3 . Argues for process in student video production, with the final product a secondary outcome.

O'Hara, John (1996), 'The communications race', Campus Review March 14-20 . The former head of the Australian Film, Television & Radio School (now at Charles Sturt University) gives his views on communication education, in a Campus Review special report on 'Media'.

Osmond, Warren (1999), 'Digital advances drive AFTRS agenda', Campus Review Nov 3-9. Challenges from new technology facing training institutions such as the Australian Film, Television & Radio School.

Pearson, Mark (1998), 'Weighed down by popular demand', The Australian May 13. The popularity of communication studies and media studies in Australia.

Puig, Claudia (1995), 'Teaching children to watch TV', Los Angeles Times Aug 31. A report on media literacy initiatives in the US makes the front page of the LA Times (a fair report too!)

Reynolds, Terry (1995), 'Boys and English: so what's the problem?', The English & Media Magazine 33, Autumn. Not strictly about media education but a very good article on the problems and possibilities of getting boys to read. One explanation offered is that it has a lot to do with English teachers'expectations of what is 'acceptable' reading.

Richards, Chris (1995), 'Popular music and media education', Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education 16:3. Argues that media education should more actively engage with popular music--'as a domain for the production of social identities'.

Rush, Jeff (1997), `Course file for `Narrative Film: Theory and Practice', Journal of Film and Video 49/3, Fall. Guidance on teaching the narrative structures of film.

Shuker, Roy (1995), 'Media education and media literacy'. Paper to the NZ Association for Research in Education conference, Massey University. A review of the current state of media teaching in New Zealand.

Simons, Michael & Jenny Grahame (1998), 'Remission Impossible: teaching old soaps in a new pack', The English & Media Magazine No. 38, Summer. Describes a new teaching resource for teaching continuing drama.

Watson, Chris (1996), 'Media Studies and the curriculum', New Zealand Annual Review of Education 5: 1995. Although more about media education than Media Studies, this provides a very good analysis of developments in courses and evaluation in New Zealand.

Webster, Sarah (2000), `Playing away: making space for creativity in Media Studies', The English & Media Magazine 41, Spring. Suggests that work out of the school environment ('the field trip') can be very productive.

Wehmeyer, Jim (2000), `Critical Media Studies and the North American Media Literacy movement', Cinema Journal 39.4, Summer. The distances that are frowing between media academics and advocacy groups in the USA.

Williams, Sue (1997), 'The rise of the televisionary', The Australian March 12. A profile of Rod Bishop, head of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. He explains how the AFTRS is now putting more emphasis on television production.

Winnall, Anne (1999), 'Victory for NAME', Off the air 8:4, December. Our President describes the work of NAME and its success in getting Media Studies in the curriculum. This 'NZ Special Edition' of the Screenrights' newsletter also has Gordon Lawrence and Steve Lindsey describing their television teaching.


        

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