Intermediality: The Teachers’ Handbook of Critical Media Literacy

This book grew out of reflections emerging from conversations among teachers attending the 1996 National Reading Conference Media Literacy Study Group. It challenges the practice of teaching the classics and the canon of acceptable literary works far removed from U.S. students’ experiences.

Ladislaus M. Semaliis associate professor of education at The Pennsylvania State University, where he teaches media literacy to preservice teachers. He authored Postliteracy in the Age of Democracy and coedited What Is Indigenous Knowledge? Voices from the Academy. Ann Watts Pailliotet is assistant professor of education at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, where she teaches preservice literacy methods, critical reading of children’s literature, and media literacy. She is a past winner of the National Reading Conference Student Outstanding Research Award and College Composition and Communication Citation for outstanding classroom practice.