Healthy Teens, Healthy Schools: How Media Literacy Education can Renew Education in the United States

Vanessa Domine

doi:10.5771/9781475813593

Summary

Widespread obesity, poor nutrition, sleep-deprivation, and highly digital and sedentary lifestyles are just a few of the many challenges facing young people. Although public schools in the United States have the potential for meeting these challenges on a mass scale, they are slow to respond. The emphasis on discrete subject areas and standardized test performance offers little in the way of authentic learning and may in reality impede health. Healthy Teens, Healthy Schools: How Media Literacy Education can Renew Education in the United States reframes health education as a complex terrain that resides within a larger ecosystem of historical, social, political, and global economic forces. It calls for a media literate pedagogy that empowers students to be critical consumers, creative producers, and responsible citizens. This book illustrates holistic health education through school-community initiatives and innovative partnerships that are successful in magnifying all curriculum subjects and their associated teaching practices. Vanessa Domine offers teachers, teacher educators, school administrators, community organizers, public health professionals, and policy makers with a transmedia and transdisciplinary educational approach to adolescent health to demonstrate how our collective focus on cultivating healthy teens will ultimately yield healthy schools.

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Copyright Year: 2015
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-1358-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-1359-3
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 121
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. The Pursuit of Health Literacy No access
2. Healthy Teens through Healthy Schools No access
3. About This Book No access
4. Notes No access
1. A Statistical Snapshot No access
2. The Conundrum of Obesity No access
3. Moving beyond the Data No access
4. Notes No access
1. The Moral Epoch of Print No access
2. Protecting Youth in a Broadcast Era No access
3. A Hyper-Focus on Media Effects No access
4. What Makes a Public Health Media Campaign Effective? No access
5. New Technologies, New Challenges No access
6. Notes No access
1. Health Communication 2.0 No access
2. T2x: A Transmedia Approach to Teen Health No access
3. Media Literacy: Asking Critical Questions No access
4. Morphing Analysis into Action No access
5. Notes No access
1. Let’s Move to Pepsi No access
2. Under the Influence No access
3. Government Regulation No access
4. The Political Battlefield of the School Cafeteria No access
5. Moving Forward No access
6. Notes No access
1. A Standards-Based Approach No access
2. A Transdisciplinary Approach No access
3. A Whole School Model No access
4. Notes No access
1. Mapping the Village No access
2. Beyond the Village No access
3. Notes No access
Index No access Pages 115 - 121