Media
from the Margins: Evoking
the Power of Student
Imagination and Memory
for Learning and Engagement
Tara M. Brown, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction in the Minority
and Urban Education Unit at the University of Maryland |
This
presentation draws from four
projects focused on adolescents’ uses
of media and new technologies. It
will explore the potential
of technology-mediated work
for 1) researching youth’s
experiences, 2) enhancing student
inquiry, learning and self-expression,
3) transforming pedagogy and
classroom instruction and 4)
(re)connecting disengaged adolescents
(particularly those vulnerable
to dropout and school exclusion)
to school-based intellectual
work. |
Thursday
Lunch
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Tara
M. Brown's work centers
on issues of educational equity,
dropout and school exclusion, and
educational uses of technology and
new media, particularly as they pertain
to low-income adolescents of color. Tara’s
most recent study is a participatory
action research project in which
she is working with high school students
attending an urban, special education
alternative school, using media and
new technologies to explore the schooling
experiences of marginalized adolescents
excluded from mainstream public schools.
She is a recipient of a Spencer Research
Training Grant and a Jacob’s
Foundation Information Technology
Dissertation Grant. Tara is
also a painter and visual artist. |
