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Straitlaced - an exciting new documentary on gender roles

Posted Tue, 06/09/2009 - 22:21 by lizjmeyer

 Wow, Debra Chasnoff has done it again.  From the brilliant documentary filmmaker who brought us "It's Elementary" "That's a Family" and "Let's Get Real", she has turned her lens on the issue of gender role expectations and how homophobia impacts how kids grow up and learn to fit into narrow concepts of man/woman and by default gay/straight.  I have only viewed excerpts, but based on her previous work and the content of the interviews I just read (http://www.edgenewyork.com/index.phpch=entertainment&sc=movies&sc2=features

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Self-Assessment: Students "Know" Better

Posted Tue, 09/09/2008 - 12:24 by Dave

 

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Critical Pedagogy Through Media Literacy

Posted Mon, 07/07/2008 - 00:21 by Katherine

I am currently working toward my M.A. in Child Studies, and my main focus is Media Literacy. With this class, I have become aware that Media Literacy is in essence inextricably linked with Critical Pedagogy. Until recently, I had not been exposed to the term Critical Pedagogy sufficiently to understand the extent to which it can impact a person's identity construction.

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