Teaching Youth Media

The author, Steven Goodman, draws on his experience working with inner-city youth at the Educational Video Center (EVC), New York City, NY, United States, to explore the power of using media education to help urban teenagers develop their critical thinking and literacy skills. In doing so, he looks closely at both the problems and possibilities of this model of media education as a response to a national concern about adolescents, literacy, media, and violence. He begins with an analysis of the intersection of literacy and culture as youth learn to analyse information from a variety of sources, including television, newspapers, books, films, school, church, and lives outside of school. The book includes both the documentary teaching process and case studies of students and teachers engaged in making video documentaries at EVC and in an alternative high school. Along with social and cultural issues as both subject matter and factors mediating the learning process, he explores the critical thinking and technical video arts skills students develop as they learn to collaboratively conduct interviews, research, shoot, log, and edit their documentaries.

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