Abstract Media literacy is a powerful tool for fostering citizenship skills in youth. Yet, while research and some exemplary model citizens demonstrate its ability to provide students tools to engage with media productively in order to participate in civic conversions, not enough media literacy focuses on how students develop a strong personal message and authentic … [Read more...] about “Producing Peace”: The Possibilities and Limits of Using Media Literacy to Foster Student Agency
Author Profile: Prescott Seraydarian
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Film and Media Literacy TeacherGeorge SchoolPrescott Seraydarian (pseraydarian@georgeschool.org) is a film and media literacy teacher at George School, a co-ed Quaker Boarding School in Newtown, Pennsylvania. He is a Certified Media Literacy Educator. Outside of the classroom, Prescott is an award-winning filmmaker as well as the author of The Pathfinder’s Society, a middle grade graphic novel series published by Penguin Random House.