Abstract This essay examines critical self-reflexivity as an essential, yet overlooked dimension of critical media literacy. While media education emphasizes the analysis of media, messages, and audiences, it often neglects self-reflection about how one’s own identity, positionality, and lived experience shape meaning-making. Drawing on feminist standpoint theory, … [Read more...] about Critical Media Literacy and the Importance of Critical Self-Reflexivity
Critical Pedagogy
For the Love of Nature: Bringing Environmental Justice to Urban Elementary Students
Abstract: This essay explores the role of critical pedagogy in environmental justice education. We discuss the need for teaching a love of nature (biophilia) as an entry point for developing a caring relationship and sense of stewardship with the natural world. Place-based education and ecopedagogy offer liberatory potential to make education more transformative and … [Read more...] about For the Love of Nature: Bringing Environmental Justice to Urban Elementary Students
