Renee Hobbs, editor of Section 1, Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy through the Commnunicative and Visual Arts at the International Reading Association, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2008.

1. Handbook on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts Part I: Historical and Theoretical Foundations Renee Hobbs Temple University, Philadelphia PA

3. New Literacies or Media Competence? Felini, D. (2008). Crossing the Bridge: Literacy between School Education and Contemporary Cultures.

10. Performance, Children’s Theater and Drama Woodson, S. (2008). Constructing, Performing and Reading Representations of Youth and Childhood. It is important to distinguish between culture as textual and culture as performative. Performances are embodied and collaborative ways of knowing. “ Performance, unlike text, appears and disappears to be replaced by memory and drawn from memory. And since individuals construct reality differently, performance highlights the slippage between the real and the perceived” (p. 39)

11. Multimedia Production as Composition Bruce, D. (2008). Multimedia Production as Composition. Connotative meanings of “production” & “composition” Weaknesses of stage-based process models based on industry training paradigm Video composition can use a recursive process similar to writing

15. Making Media Literacy an Entitlement for All Bazalgette, C. (2008). The Development of Media Education in England: A Personal View. Rapid changes in technology create a danger that literacy education will “become dominated by ‘creativity’ at the expense of the other two C’s. The ease of access now afforded by digital technologies makes this temptingly easy… learning in this area needs to be underpinned by cultural breadth and critical skills” (p. 49) Cultural Critical Creative