The Ideology of Images in Educational Media

This book addresses a significant gap in the otherwise growing literature on hidden curriculums - the relationship between visual representation and the construction of knowledge in educational media. The contributors to this volume explode the myth that the accepted conventions of film, video, and photographic representation are mere neutral carriers devoid of content implications. Rather, they argue, such seemingly neutral forms actually inflect and shape content with particular meanings linked to historical contexts and unequal power relations. The authors explore how visual representations in curriculum materials privilege some ways of knowing over others and how the terms of such privilege relate to the school's role in society. Further, the authors are committted to constructing classroom practices that counter the ways in which sexism, elitism, racism and other oppressive formations structure classroom interactions.
The first book to address these vital issues, it seeks to serve as a supplemental text in courses on curriculum theory and development, educational foundations, sociology of education, cultural studies, educational communications and technology, qualitative research methods, and women's studies, and should be valuable to educators and researchers in these and related areas.