Speaking out against decades of injustice and challenging deficit perceptions of young learners and their families, It’s Not About Grit pulls back the veil, revealing the social systems that marginalize and stigmatize mostly poor, urban students of color and their communities. At the same time, it shows these students’ tremendous intelligence, resilience, and sense of agency. Enhanced with a curriculum guide and award-winning video clips from EVC, Goodman demonstrates how to create a safe and inclusive school climate for all students where educators can develop a pedagogy of transformative teaching.

 

 

 

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This pioneering book explores the intersection of literacy and culture and illustrates the power of using media education to help urban students develop their critical literacy skills. It features case studies of students and teachers engaged in making video documentaries at EVC and in an alternative high school and  describes the changes schools and after-school programs need to make in order to create a media education that empowers students to change their world.

 

 

 

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Selected List of Publications

“Bridging Urban/Rural and Digital Divides: New Directions in Youth Media Education” in Palgrave Handbook of Children’s Film and Television. Casie Hermansson and Janet Zepernick, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, (forthcoming).

(with Carolyn Cocca) “Spaces of Action: Teaching Critical Literacy for Community Empowerment in the Age of Neoliberalism.” English Teaching: Practice and Critique . Volume 13, Number 3. December 2014. pp. 210-226. http://education.waikato.ac.nz/research/files/etpc/files/2014 v13n3dial1.pdf

(with Christine Mendoza and Theresa Navarro) “The Educational Video Center.” Conversations Across Cultures: Youth Media Visions. Exploring the pedagogic potentialities of learning with and from media produced by young people. Curated by Laia Sole and Jordi Torrent. Teachers College, Columbia University and United Nationals Alliance of Civilizations. 2014. pp. 54-63.

(with Carolyn Cocca) “Youth Voices for Change: Building Political Efficacy and Civic Engagement through Digital Media Literacy.” Journal of Digital and Media Literacy. Inaugural edition of the Knight Foundation. February 1, 2013.

“’Mad Hard Fun’: Building a Microculture of Youth Media in New York City Transfer Schools” in International Perspectives on Youth Media: Cultures of Production and Education. JoEllen Fisherkeller, ed. New York: Peter Lang, 2011. pp. 338-354.

“21st-Century Literacy and Civic Engagement: Facilitating Student Documentary Projects.” Bank Street College of Education Occasional Paper Series 25, High Needs Schools: Preparing Teachers for Today’s World. October, 2010. pp 44- 54. https://archive.org/details/ERIC_ED521599/page/n45

“Sex, Literacy and Videotape: Learning, Identity and Language Development Through Documentary Production with “Overage” Students.” English Teaching: Practice and Critique. Volume 9, Number 1. May, 2010.http://education.waikato.ac.nz/research/files/etpc/ files/2010v9n1art1.pdf

(With Rebecca Renard and Christine Mendoza) “Drop It to the Youth: Community-Based Youth Video as a Tool for Building Democratic Dialogue in South Africa” in African Media, African Children. The International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth & Media. Norma Pecora, Enyonam Osei-Hwere, Ulla Carlsson (eds.) Nordicom, 2008.

“Amplifying Young People’s Voices” in Keeping America Open, in OSI U.S. Programs Tenth Anniversary Report Open Society Institute, 2006.

“The Practice and Principles of Teaching Critical Literacy” in Media Literacy: Transforming Curriculum and Teaching. Gretchen Schwarz and Pamela Brown (eds.) Yearbook National Society for the Study of Education, 2005.