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[F]ascinating... Visual Pedagogy contains an excellent annotated appendix, which includes a list of media organizations, distributors, and other resources referred to in the rich case studies, enabling a reader to follow up any individual case study. The book does a fairly admirable job of walking the difficult line between theory and practice, always a slippery slope... --Lynn D. Dierking, Anthropology of Education Quarterly Goldfarb's book steps into a breach in our understanding about the role of the visual and the media in the broad cultures of education and pedagogy during the late 20th century... Recommended. --L. R. Baxter, Choice Goldfarb has succeeded to write a clear and very readable appraisal of the use of visual media while avoiding the gobbledegook of many books on media theory. --Stefaan Van Ryssen, Leonardo This is a well-written and well-considered book that will be useful to academic practitioners and students alike. It is a critical text that is theoretically aware and explicit, but accessible... Visual Pedagogy crosses disciplines and is of interest to educationalists, anthropologists and sociologists of the visual and of media, as well as media and cultural studies. It is also an invaluable text for practitioners and especially for those who combine theory and practice in audiovisual production. --Sarah Pink, European Journal of Communication [C]hallenging and engaging... --Ann M. Ciasullo, Feminist Teacher [T]he uniqueness of this work resides in its emphasis on the video practices of young people themselves and on the broader implications of notions of pedagogy and development as they link up with visual culture and the moving image. --Richard Armstrong, Film Quarterly Listed in Afterimage, Cultural Critique, Critical Inquiry, CHE. Abstract in Communications Booknotes Quarterly and Education Week. Reviewed in Journalism Educator and Journalism and Mass Communication Educator.

"""[F]ascinating... Visual Pedagogy contains an excellent annotated appendix, which includes a list of media organizations, distributors, and other resources referred to in the rich case studies, enabling a reader to follow up any individual case study. The book does a fairly admirable job of walking the difficult line between theory and practice, always a slippery slope...""--Lynn D. Dierking, Anthropology of Education Quarterly ""Goldfarb's book steps into a breach in our understanding about the role of the visual and the media in the broad cultures of education and pedagogy during the late 20th century... Recommended.""--L. R. Baxter, Choice ""Goldfarb has succeeded to write a clear and very readable appraisal of the use of visual media while avoiding the gobbledegook of many books on media theory.""--Stefaan Van Ryssen, Leonardo ""This is a well-written and well-considered book that will be useful to academic practitioners and students alike. It is a critical text that is theoretically aware and explicit, but accessible... Visual Pedagogy crosses disciplines and is of interest to educationalists, anthropologists and sociologists of the visual and of media, as well as media and cultural studies. It is also an invaluable text for practitioners and especially for those who combine theory and practice in audiovisual production.""--Sarah Pink, European Journal of Communication ""[C]hallenging and engaging...""--Ann M. Ciasullo, Feminist Teacher ""[T]he uniqueness of this work resides in its emphasis on the video practices of young people themselves and on the broader implications of notions of pedagogy and ""development"" as they link up with visual culture and the moving image.""--Richard Armstrong, Film Quarterly Listed in Afterimage, Cultural Critique, Critical Inquiry, CHE. Abstract in Communications Booknotes Quarterly and Education Week. Reviewed in Journalism Educator and Journalism and Mass Communication Educator."

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Brian Goldfarb is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. He was Curator of Education at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City from 1993 to 1997.

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