[ecrea] Call for lesson plans for Teaching Media Quarterly

Teaching Media Quarterly, and open access journal of lesson plans for 
the media studies classroom is currently seeking submissions for the 
forthcoming issue “Difficult Discussions: Controversy, Triggers and 
Inclusivity in the Media Studies Classroom”:

Recent conversations about the uses and misuses of trigger warnings in 
academia, and the re-emergence of accusations of “political correctness” 
have once again pointed out the complex role of instructors. As 
instructors, we provoke and challenge our students, and at the same time 
nurture their intellectual development. In the context of this seeming 
contradiction, the media studies classroom can be an especially fraught 
location for working through difficult questions about power and 
pleasure, subjectivity and identity, culture and politics.

For our upcoming issue, the editors of Teaching Media Quarterly seek 
lesson plans that demonstrate some of the ways media studies instructors 
have approached potentially explosive or painful conversations in their 
classrooms. What classroom activities have you used to help student 
think and talk through potentially upsetting material in ways that at 
once push them to engage critically, while at the same time maintaining 
an inclusive, respectful environment, especially for students from 
historically marginalized groups? How have you leveraged the safer space 
of our classrooms to explore painful subjects? How have you supported 
your students as they questions their relationship to media while 
pushing them to ask sometimes difficult questions about their own role 
in systems of power?

We are open to a variety of approaches and topic areas, but remind 
contributors that lesson plans should be specific to the media studies 
classroom.

Some possible areas of exploration might include:

  * Racism and white supremacy
  * Toxic masculinity, misogyny, feminism and postfeminism
  * Class, money, economic philosophies and policies
  * Critiques of empire and anti-Americanism
  * Controversies within academia, such as the sexual violence epidemic,
    student debt, or neo-liberal labor practices
  * Electoral politics
  * Social movements and protest
  * Bodies and biopolitics
  * Sexuality and gender identity

Lesson plan submissions are due January 1, 2017. More information 
including submission guidelines can be found at
teachingmedia.org <http://teachingmedia.org>


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