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Reconceptualizing Self and Other Through Critical Media Engagement
Author(s) -
Huang Shinying
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of adolescent and adult literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1936-2706
pISSN - 1081-3004
DOI - 10.1002/jaal.457
Subject(s) - subjectivity , identity (music) , pedagogy , masculinity , sociology , critical literacy , qualitative research , deconstruction (building) , sexual identity , critical discourse analysis , psychology , ideology , literacy , gender studies , epistemology , politics , aesthetics , social science , human sexuality , ecology , philosophy , political science , law , biology
This research explores how critical media literacy transforms ways of engaging with media texts and expands the understanding and practice of literacy. In this qualitative teacher inquiry, even though the teacher researcher had envisioned for the students an identity as academic‐language learners who engage with competing ideologies of masculinity through critical analysis of its construction in a media text, the students chose to enact the subjectivity of masculinity as a lived experience rather than merely an academic deconstruction, and the subjectivity of themselves as having a critical voice in relation to the social construction of discrimination. These findings prompted the teacher researcher to consider the reflective nature of teacher inquiry and its potential for building relations between identity and subjectivity.