ABSTRACT
This chapter challenges teachers to reevaluate the analytical schemes to gain a more contextual understanding of the mutually constitutive nature of theory and practice. It proposes critical viewing as a vision of criticism–a vision of enabling students and teachers to become "co-creators" of knowledge. The chapter discusses a critical stance calls for analytical strategies to sift through the multiple layers of texts presented in such multimedia environments of Web sites, videos, and electronic bulletin boards. It illustrates the vision of criticism of students will be able to: analyze the hierarchical positioning of individuals within the social order on the basis of race, class, gender, and sexuality, and acknowledge the multiple and insidious ways in which power operates in the larger society "to reproduce the interests of the dominant culture". The chapter proposes the language of criticism as a reflective teaching approach to theory and classroom practice. It examines that the language of media is socially and historically produced.
