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Book SynopsisWidespread obesity, poor nutrition, sleep-deprivation, and highly digital and sedentary lifestyles are just a few of the many challenges facing young people. Although public schools in the United States have the potential for meeting these challenges on a mass scale, they are slow to respond. The emphasis on discrete subject areas and standardized test performance offers little in the way of authentic learning and may in reality impede health. Healthy Teens, Healthy Schools: How Media Literacy Education can Renew Education in the United States reframes health education as a complex terrain that resides within a larger ecosystem of historical, social, political, and global economic forces. It calls for a media literate pedagogy that empowers students to be critical consumers, creative producers, and responsible citizens. This book illustrates holistic health education through school-community initiatives and innovative partnerships that are successful in magnifying all curriculum subjec
Trade ReviewIn this book, Domine advocates for practices, programs, and interventions that would foster media literacy—specifically health literacy—among adolescent youth. Using a social constructivist approach, Domine examines the historical connections among the adolescent youth culture, media technology, public health, and industrialization. She analyzes data from various sources to summarize the health challenges that adolescent youth currently confront and shows how the health and health literacy of adolescents have been marginalized, co-opted, and failed by the entwined institutions of public education, business and industry, technology, and politics. Her analysis of the commercialization and politicalization of youth health issues, such as federal school and breakfast programs and physical activity campaigns, is particularly enlightening. Ultimately, the most important contribution of Domine’s work is her identification and description of effective adolescent health approaches and initiatives. Professionals who focus on adolescent health within the disciplines of public health, health education, and health promotion can find a foundation for their work in this interesting book that illustrates holistic health education through school-community initiatives and innovative partnerships. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals and practitioners. * CHOICE *
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction The Pursuit of Health Literacy A Media Literate Approach to Health A Focus on Adolescence Healthy Teens Through Healthy Schools About This Book Part I: Healthy Teens 1—A Nation at Risk A Statistical Snapshot An Obsession with Sugar and Caffeine Prescription Drug Use A Complicated Relationship With Food A Sedentary and Technologized Culture The Conundrum of Obesity Obesity: Cause, Effect, or Both? Socio-Economic Disparities of Obesity Moving Beyond the Data 2—A Social History of Media and Health The Moral Epoch of Print The Health Costs of Industrialization High Schools as Moral Centers Protecting Youth in a Broadcast Era TV as (Processed) Food for ThoughtThe Impact of Instructional TV and Film The Perils of Advertising A Hyper-Focus on Media Effects What Makes a Public Health Media Campaign Effective? New Technologies, New Challenges 3—Teen Health—Is There An App for That? Health Communication 2.0 Bridging the Digital Health Divide Crowdsourcing Health The Hazards of Data Personalization T2x: A Transmedia Approach to Teen Health Media Literacy: Asking Critical Questions How Do Users Interpret Health Messages?How Is Health Constructed Through Mass Media? How Are Media Languages Used To Construct Health? What Values Are Associated With Health? Who Owns the Media Constructions of Health? Morphing Analysis into Action Part II: Healthy Schools 4—The Politics of Adolescent Health Let's Move to Pepsi Under the Influence Government Regulation The Political Battlefield of the School Cafeteria Maximizing Nutritional Value The Politics of Healthy Schools Moving Forward 5—A Healthy Curriculum A Standards-Based Approach Link to Academic Achievement A Mandate to Integrate A Transdisciplinary Approach Lessons from NeverSeconds Lessons from the Edible Schoolyard A Whole School Model6—It Takes a VillageMapping the Village Family Engagement Peer Mentoring Farm to School Culinary Professionals School-University Partnerships Non-Profit Alliances Media Advocates Beyond the Village Index
