Authentic Learning Experiences on Race, Diversity, and Culture in a Video Production Class (Poster 23): Division G - Section 3: Languages, Literacies, and Representations, Stage 1, 12:28 PM

• In Event: e-Lightening Ed-Talk Session 20 - Stage 1

Abstract

Through my method of video-cued classroom ethnography, I examined how youth media principles like student voice, collaboration and student-lead meetings, offered students from an in-school video production class with real-world and authentic ways to reflect on power and ethics. Instead of passively learning about race, media and representation issues, students had to negotiate and think critically about their video production decisions for an authentic audience. While the social studies or ELA curricula may cover issues of race, and other social justice topics, a video production class adds to this knowledge in ways that passive learning experiences miss out on.

Author

• Isabel C. Castellanos, University of Massachusetts - Amherst