ABSTRACT

Exploring the concept of individual and collective transformation as the underlying driver for media pedagogy, this book offers valuable insights and practical strategies for implementing transformative media pedagogies across learning environments and civic ecosystems.

Each chapter takes the form of critical and reflective writing on specific processes and practices that emerged from contributors' experiences of participating in the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change, an experimental and immersive transformational media pedagogy project born in 2007, and continuing to this day. Together, contributors examine media pedagogies that prioritize value constructions like human connection, care, imagination, and agency, all of which collectively support a transformative approach to learning. While this book takes into account media pedagogies that focus on competencies and skills, its priority is to reveal and offer learning pathways that develop media makers and storytellers focused on positive social impact in the world.

This book will be of interest to any media educators, researchers, practitioners, and entrepreneurs seeking to implement transformative media pedagogies that support equitable and just civic futures.

chapter 1|13 pages

The Salzburg Context

chapter 3|142 pages

Designing Transformation

chapter |41 pages

Care

chapter 3.1|5 pages

Embodiment, Space, and Empathy

chapter 3.2|12 pages

Authentic Encounters

chapter 3.4|6 pages

The Power of the Invisible Curriculum

Deepening Connections in Learning Communities

chapter 3.5|9 pages

Comfort Zones

chapter |51 pages

Imagination

chapter 3.6|8 pages

Palace of the Mind

An Essay on Play and Learning

chapter 3.8|10 pages

Ways of Seeing/Reasons to See

chapter 3.9|9 pages

Immersive Storytelling

chapter 3.10|7 pages

Experimental Design

chapter 3.11|8 pages

Art and Memory

chapter |46 pages

Agency

chapter 3.12|6 pages

Evoking Joy

chapter 3.15|7 pages

Research as Power

chapter 3.16|11 pages

Learning to Think Like Your Users

chapter 3.17|7 pages

The Evolving Educator