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Hagood, Margaret C.; Alvermann, Donna E.; Heron-Hruby, Alison – Teachers College Press, 2010
Students' backpacks bulge not just with oversize textbooks, but with paperbacks, graphic novels, street lit, and electronics such as iPods and handheld video games. This book is about unpacking those texts to explore previously unexamined assumptions regarding their usefulness to classroom learning. With a strong theoretical grounding and many…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, Popular Culture, School Libraries
Alvermann, Donna E.; Moon, Jennifer S.; Hagood, Margaret C. – 1999
Written for teachers, researchers, and theorists who have grown up in a world radically different from that of the students they teach and study, this book addresses the importance of developing within children and adolescents a critical awareness of the social, political, and economic messages emanating from the different forms of popular…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Films, Media Literacy, Middle School Students