What Dirty Dancing Taught Me About Media Literacy Education
Robin Fuxa · DOAJ Open Access Articles
The author reflects on her youthful viewing of Dirty Dancing on video against her parents’ wishes as one example of the ineffectiveness of a protectionist approach to media. She offers ideas on how she and her students (pre-service and in-service educators) think through how to navigate selection of materials for effective media literacy education. Concern o…