Abstract As young people’s use of media is growing globally, the climate crisis is increasing to unprecedented levels. In this report, we focus on the role that education can play in promoting critical thinking about media and environmental justice. Through the teaching of critical media literacy, students learn to analyze representations of the climate crisis in the media. … [Read more...] about Critical Media Literacy Analysis and Production for Systems Thinking About Climate Change
Author Profile: Richard Beach
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Professor Emeritus of Literacy EducationUniversity of MinnesotaRichard Beach is Professor Emeritus of Literacy Education at the University of Minnesota. His recent research focuses fostering languaging in schools and teaching about climate change and media production. He is co-author/editor of 32 books, including: Teaching Language as Action in the ELA Classsroom (http://languaging.pbworks.com), Drawing on Students’ Worlds in the ELA Classroom (http://adolescentsworlds.pbworks.com), Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents: Reading, Writing, and Making a Difference (http://climatechangeela.pbworks.com), and Youth Media Creation on the Climate Change Crisis: Hear Our Voices (http://youthclimatecrisismedia.pbworks.com) (in press). He recently received the 2022 John Gumperz Distinguished Lifetime Scholarship Award from the Language and Social Processes SIG, AERA.Learn more about Richard here: https://richardbeach6.academia.edu/