is a book series with Peter Lang Publishers specifically designed to address the needs of both students and teachers in watching, comprehending, and using media. We are aware of the blatant and insidious uses and effects of media in a corporate-driven globalized world and recognize that educators are often ill-equipped to address this pedagogical force in any critical way. We are also aware of the possibilities of using a wide range of educational settings to raise consciousness about media relations and realities and promote critical, creative alternatives to contemporary mainstream practices.

gathers essays by classroom and community educators deeply influenced by radical educator, Hal Adams’ educational work and vision, and several essays by Hal Adams. They explore diverse ways this humanizing pedagogy can be applied in a wide range of contexts, and consider its potential to transform students and teachers alike.

is a cutting-edge investigation of the alarming state of education today.

takes words commonly used in social studies education and unsettles them in ways that will redefine the field for years to come.

This is a book about , the human experience, teaching and learning, creativity and community. The authors maintain that story in a broad and newly enlightened sense may help us to break out from the narrow concepts of literacy, content knowledge related to measureable standards, and random facts that are unrelated to dispositions for addressing human needs.

offers K–16 teachers course-specific guidelines for indigenizing mainstream education. Each chapter first exposes educational hegemony, including that existing within the new «common core standards», and then offers alternative, time-tested perspectives and exercises to counter and/or counter-balance such hegemony.

publishes the most compelling and imaginative books being written in education today. Grounded on the theoretical advances in criticalism, feminism and postmodernism in the last two decades of the twentieth century, engages the meaning of these innovations in various forms of educational expression. Committed to the proposition that theoretical literature should be accessible to a variety of audiences, the series insists that its authors avoid esoteric and jargonistic languages that transform educational scholarship into an elite discourse for the initiated.

argues for artistic research as a context-aware and historical process that works inside-in, beginning and ending with acts committed within an artistic practice. This book is essential reading for university courses in art, art education, media and social sciences.

examines collectively the ethical issues that have arisen in media-driven everyday life and will that arise as paradigm shifts occur on a global scale. Chapters in the book use critical theory to look at issues of free market fundamentalism, journalism’s erosion of communication of truth, yielding self-censorship in the media, music and morality, and much more.