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Category Archives: Service Learning
Experiments with Pedagogy’s Forms
Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Against the Global Right Vol 5 (1) Tara McPherson, University of Southern California “The educator also has the duty of not being neutral” (Paulo Freire and Horton, 1990: 180). I have never understood teaching to … Continue reading
‘Humanimal’ University: Teaching To Awaken Consciousness of Human and Animal Suffering Amidst Politics of Big Business
Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Critical Pedagogies in Neoliberal Times Vol. 3(2) Ellen Gorsevski Bowling Green State University “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” – [attributed to] … Continue reading
Local Truths, Tactical Pedagogies: Documentary, Ethics, and Service Learning
Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 2(2) Spring 2014 Chuck Tryon Fayetteville State University This essay offers what was essentially a tactical response to both the devaluation of the liberal arts and the decline in funding for higher education. Specifically, … Continue reading
Social Media Literacy Service Learning
Posted in Assignments, Service Learning Tagged media, Media literacy, New Media, Service Learning, Social Networking Leave a comment
Extra credit assignment – Contribute to a public discussion
** Extra Credit Assignment
You can earn up 2% extra credit added to your final grade for documenting how you have contributed up to 2 pieces of media criticism to the public sphere (1% added for each contribution). By “media criticism,” I mean that that you have contributed to a public discussion about the societal implications of media invoking some of the themes from this class. Some examples of ways of contributing to the public sphere include: a letter about media policy sent to the FCC or a legislative representative, a letter to the editor of a newspaper or magazine, a comment submitted to a blog or online periodical (the only thing I require is that the blog is not run by you or a friend of yours).
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