Critically Redefining and Repositioning Media Texts in Early Childhood Teacher Education: What If? And Why?

Autor/inn/en	Souto-Manning, Mariana; Price-Dennis, Detra
Titel	Critically Redefining and Repositioning Media Texts in Early Childhood Teacher Education: What If? And Why?
Quelle	In: Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 33 (2012) 4, S.304-321 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1090-1027
DOI	10.1080/10901027.2012.732669
Schlagwörter	Media Literacy; Preservice Teacher Education; Cartoons; Popular Culture; Teacher Educators; Young Children; Preservice Teachers; Black Dialects + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Media skills; Medie competence; Medienkompetenz; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Zeichentrickfilm; Popkultur; Teacher education; Education; Lehrerbildung; Frühe Kindheit
Abstract	Given the prevalence of popular media in the lives of young children today, early childhood teacher education stands to benefit from fostering critical media literacy practices. Through the use of critical media literary practices, early childhood teacher educators can facilitate a process whereby preservice teachers learn how to critically reposition cartoons and other media texts, transforming them into tools for more equitable teaching. Offering a situated representation of this phenomenon, this article features a semester-long qualitative study in which a teacher educator engaged preservice teacher educators in critically reading the texts and contexts of media, while simultaneously discussing inequities in education and society. Findings indicate that such media texts can serve as codifications of generative themes whereby preservice teachers can start acknowledging and addressing issues of inequity. Implications point toward the power and possibilities of early childhood teacher educators engaging preservice teachers in making curricula more accessible and equitable by repositioning popular culture media texts in early childhood classrooms. (Contains 1 footnote.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10