This book argues for dynamic and relevant school experiences for primary and early secondary learners that embed digital media production. It proposes a vision of literacy that combines new technologies with multiple modes of meaning-making. Drawing on theories related to cultural studies, media literacy, anthropology, and creativity, the author explores learning strategies with digital media based on an empowering, values-driven framework. The book advances innovative teaching methods, critiquing educational 'reforms' that marginalise media and fail to engage with the complex tensions and textures of modern pedagogy.
Positioning film and media-making as vital practices in schools that nurture the skills, dispositions and competencies of modern literacy, the model foregrounds connections between human agency, cognition, and creative practice. This innovative book will appeal to students and scholars of creativity, digital media production, primary education and literacy.

Approaches the use of media within learning as an area which reaches beyond technology and provides wide-ranging answers Theorises young people's creative literacy achievements with film and digital media alongside personal affective responses, socio-cultural contexts and practical pedagogical issues Engages with ideas of rhetorical performance and phronesis to create connections between arts education, media crafting and composition and other literacy pedagogies

Autorentext
Michelle Cannon is a film and media education researcher and lectures at the UCL Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, London, UK. She has worked as a creative media practitioner in London schools and has collaborated internationally on film education research projects.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Media:making: Researching, Teaching and Learning.- Chapter 2. Contexts, Practices and Pedagogies.- Chapter 3. Research Principles and Educational Values.- Chapter 4. The Clip Club: Primary Film-Making and Editing.- Chapter 5. Film and Digital Media Production in Schools.- Chapter 6. Five Dimensions of Critical and Creative Media Practice.- Chapter 7. Wider Literacies with Digital Media.