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Traditional media literacy models are mostly left-brained, inherited from the legacy of alphabetic literacy, the Gutenberg press revolution, and industrial mass media production. New digital media radically alter the environment: their nonlinear, multisensory, field-like properties are more right-brain oriented. Consequently, rather than focus exclusively on deconstructing the products of design objects (such as an advertisement «text»), digital learning should respond to the design of the system itself, including cultural and cognitive bias. Mediacology proposes a design-for-pattern approach called «media permaculture», which restructures media literacy to be in sync with new media practices connected with sustainability and the perceptual functions of the right brain hemisphere. In the same way that permaculture approaches gardening by establishing the natural parameters of its ecological niche, media permaculture explores the individual¿s «mediacological niche» in the context of knowledge communities. By applying bioregional thinking to the symbolic order, media permaculture redresses the standard one-size-fits-all literacy model by taking into account diverse cognitive strategies and emerging convergence media practices. Antonio López applies a practical knowledge of alternative media, cross-cultural communication, and ecology to build a meaningful theory of media education.

This edited volume brings together work from leading scholars and new voices in the field of emotional intelligence. It examines emotional intelligence from the perspectives of educational psychology and positive psychology, with integrations across the two disciplines. Viewing emotional intelligence through these frameworks allows and illuminates the exploration of its positive potential and of emotional processing in contexts such as schools and workplaces. Readers will find leading empirical and theoretical views on emotional intelligence presented in this comprehensive collection, as well as inspiration for future research.

Drawing on critical race theory and empirical data from case studies involving fifty men of African descent, this book presents a perspective on black masculinity, maleness, sexism, and institutional racism.

Includes critical explorations into the key philosophical issues in qualitative research could throw light on distortions, power relations, hidden assumptions and possibilities within the field, and could provide the groundwork for needed change and new directions.

Examining Social Theory

Examining Social Theory

A collection of letters from leading educators and scholars to practicing and future teachers. It offers advice, encouragement, and inspiration in the form of innovative ideas to ignite teachers' passion for their work in the midst of a range of discouraging situations.

A collection of letters from leading educators and scholars to practicing and future teachers. It offers advice, encouragement, and inspiration in the form of innovative ideas to ignite teachers' passion for their work in the midst of a range of discouraging situations.

Ghosts of No Child Left Behind

Through the eyes of Muslim teachers, students, and members of Islamic communities, this title offers a comprehensive understanding of the problems, perspectives, and possibilities of sexuality education for Muslim youth living in the West. It explores how these youth negotiate between Muslim and popular cultural constructions of sexuality.