Overview

Widespread obesity, poor nutrition, sleep-deprivation, and highly digital and sedentary lifestyles are just a few of the many challenges facing young people. Although public schools in the United States have the potential for meeting these challenges on a mass scale, they are slow to respond. The emphasis on discrete subject areas and standardized test performance offers little in the way of authentic learning and may in reality impede health. Healthy Teens, Healthy Schools: How Media Literacy Education can Renew Education in the United States reframes health education as a complex terrain that resides within a larger ecosystem of historical, social, political, and global economic forces. It calls for a media literate pedagogy that empowers students to be critical consumers, creative producers, and responsible citizens. This book illustrates holistic health education through school-community initiatives and innovative partnerships that are successful in magnifying all curriculum subjects and their associated teaching practices. Vanessa Domine offers teachers, teacher educators, school administrators, community organizers, public health professionals, and policy makers with a transmedia and transdisciplinary educational approach to adolescent health to demonstrate how our collective focus on cultivating healthy teens will ultimately yield healthy schools.

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Author:   Vanessa Domine
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9781475813562

ISBN 10:   1475813562
Pages:   130
Publication Date:   28 May 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction The Pursuit of Health Literacy A Media Literate Approach to Health A Focus on Adolescence Healthy Teens Through Healthy Schools About This Book Part I: Healthy Teens 1—A Nation at Risk A Statistical Snapshot An Obsession with Sugar and Caffeine Prescription Drug Use A Complicated Relationship With Food A Sedentary and Technologized Culture The Conundrum of Obesity Obesity: Cause, Effect, or Both? Socio-Economic Disparities of Obesity Moving Beyond the Data 2—A Social History of Media and Health The Moral Epoch of Print The Health Costs of Industrialization High Schools as Moral Centers Protecting Youth in a Broadcast Era TV as (Processed) Food for ThoughtThe Impact of Instructional TV and Film The Perils of Advertising A Hyper-Focus on Media Effects What Makes a Public Health Media Campaign Effective? New Technologies, New Challenges 3—Teen Health—Is There An App for That? Health Communication 2.0 Bridging the Digital Health Divide Crowdsourcing Health The Hazards of Data Personalization T2x: A Transmedia Approach to Teen Health Media Literacy: Asking Critical Questions How Do Users Interpret Health Messages?How Is Health Constructed Through Mass Media? How Are Media Languages Used To Construct Health? What Values Are Associated With Health? Who Owns the Media Constructions of Health? Morphing Analysis into Action Part II: Healthy Schools 4—The Politics of Adolescent Health Let's Move to Pepsi Under the Influence Government Regulation The Political Battlefield of the School Cafeteria Maximizing Nutritional Value The Politics of Healthy Schools Moving Forward 5—A Healthy Curriculum A Standards-Based Approach Link to Academic Achievement A Mandate to Integrate A Transdisciplinary Approach Lessons from NeverSeconds Lessons from the Edible Schoolyard A Whole School Model 6—It Takes a VillageMapping the Village Family Engagement Peer Mentoring Farm to School Culinary Professionals School-University Partnerships Non-Profit Alliances Media Advocates Beyond the Village Index

Reviews

In this book, Domine advocates for practices, programs, and interventions that would foster media literacy-specifically health literacy-among adolescent youth. Using a social constructivist approach, Domine examines the historical connections among the adolescent youth culture, media technology, public health, and industrialization. She analyzes data from various sources to summarize the health challenges that adolescent youth currently confront and shows how the health and health literacy of adolescents have been marginalized, co-opted, and failed by the entwined institutions of public education, business and industry, technology, and politics. Her analysis of the commercialization and politicalization of youth health issues, such as federal school and breakfast programs and physical activity campaigns, is particularly enlightening. Ultimately, the most important contribution of Domine's work is her identification and description of effective adolescent health approaches and initiatives. Professionals who focus on adolescent health within the disciplines of public health, health education, and health promotion can find a foundation for their work in this interesting book that illustrates holistic health education through school-community initiatives and innovative partnerships. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals and practitioners. CHOICE The health of our youth and our country can benefit immensely from placing copies of this groundbreaking book into the hands of parents, educators, health care providers, and policy makers. Healthy Teens, Healthy Schools provides not just thorough analysis of the health issues facing the US and much of the Western World, it also connects these issues brilliantly within a historical context revealing the past and present role media play in contributing to our current health crisis. While the analysis is insightful, the true power of the book comes from its proactive pedagogical solutions in which Vanessa Domine provides practical advice for how a critical media health literacy education can confront these problems through empowering youth to think critically about the messages they consume and the healthy habits they develop. -- Jeff Share, PhD, UCLA If you are not concerned about the effects of exposure to electronic media on the health of teenagers, you should be. This book presents a well-researched, highly compelling case for the urgent need for media literacy education to be incorporated into school wellness programs as soon as possible. -- Marion Nestle, professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New York University; author of What to Eat Healthy Teens, Healthy Schools offers a holistic look at how mass media, popular culture and digital technologies influence children and teens, and how the practice of media literacy education can help address important health issues issues including nutrition, body image, aggression, sexuality and social relationships. Vanessa Domine situates media literacy as a practice that contributes to the development of smart, engaged and responsive young people. She offers a big-picture perspective that enlightens, informs and inspires readers. This book will enable every teacher to become a health educator, by activating those how and why questions that enable us to see the relationship between our highly-mediated cultural environment, our social relationships, and our individual behaviors, beliefs and attitudes. -- Renee Hobbs, professor and founding director of the Harrington School of Communication and Media at the University of Rhode Island

The health of our youth and our country can benefit immensely from placing copies of this groundbreaking book into the hands of parents, educators, health care providers, and policy makers. Healthy Teens, Healthy Schools provides not just thorough analysis of the health issues facing the US and much of the Western World, it also connects these issues brilliantly within a historical context revealing the past and present role media play in contributing to our current health crisis. While the analysis is insightful, the true power of the book comes from its proactive pedagogical solutions in which Vanessa Domine provides practical advice for how a critical media health literacy education can confront these problems through empowering youth to think critically about the messages they consume and the healthy habits they develop. -- Jeff Share, PhD, UCLA If you are not concerned about the effects of exposure to electronic media on the health of teenagers, you should be. This book presents a well-researched, highly compelling case for the urgent need for media literacy education to be incorporated into school wellness programs as soon as possible. -- Marion Nestle, professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New York University; author of What to Eat Healthy Teens, Healthy Schools offers a holistic look at how mass media, popular culture and digital technologies influence children and teens, and how the practice of media literacy education can help address important health issues issues including nutrition, body image, aggression, sexuality and social relationships. Vanessa Domine situates media literacy as a practice that contributes to the development of smart, engaged and responsive young people. She offers a big-picture perspective that enlightens, informs and inspires readers. This book will enable every teacher to become a health educator, by activating those how and why questions that enable us to see the relationship between our highly-mediated cultural environment, our social relationships, and our individual behaviors, beliefs and attitudes. -- Renee Hobbs, professor and founding director of the Harrington School of Communication and Media at the University of Rhode Island

Author Information

Vanessa Domine is associate professor in the Department of Secondary and Special Education at Montclair State University and the author of Rethinking Technology in Schools. She holds a doctorate in Media Ecology from New York University and is interested in how media and technology can support democratic practices in education.

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