Education and the mediated subject: what today’s teachers need most from researchers of youth and media

In schools, young people are constructed according to rigid developmental presumptions. They are classifi ed, sorted, graded, and promoted based on hierarchies rooted in psychological, medical, and pedagogical discourses popularized at the turn of the twentieth century. Although these discourses have in many spheres evolved beyond their initial orthodoxies, they persist within the institutional life of schools.