EDCI 340

Media Activism, Social Justice, and Educational Change

Units: 1.5

Hours: 3-0-0

Explores the power and possibility of using media and communication technologies for substantive societal change. Introduces students to current and possible future uses of mainstream and alternative media to challenge existing power structures, to assist in representing marginalized and underrepresented groups, and to link communities of interest in aid of the attainment of social, political, economic, environmental and cultural justice through educational change.

Undergraduate course in Curriculum and Instruction Studies offered by the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the Faculty of Education.