Artefact Analysis

Order Description Your task is to analyse a chosen media representation (social media, newspapers, the Internet, Television, Music, Art & other forms of media) of adolescents in" rel="nofollow">in Australian society. critically discuss what this tells us about how these young people are depicted in" rel="nofollow">in a specific example and how this depiction may in" rel="nofollow">influence their learnin" rel="nofollow">ing in" rel="nofollow">in a secondary school settin" rel="nofollow">ing and the implications it can have for the teachin" rel="nofollow">ing of adolescents. The social context: How is the artefact constructed? Who is the author? What “authority” does the author have? What messages or perspectives (e.g in" rel="nofollow">indigenous, multicultural, femin" rel="nofollow">inist) are contain" rel="nofollow">ined within" rel="nofollow">in artefact? How accurate a portrayal of young people do you thin" rel="nofollow">ink that this artefact is? Is the artefact bein" rel="nofollow">ing used to promote, educate or warn? Are young people stereotyped by and through this artefact or does it challenge the main" rel="nofollow">instream discourse? Is the image or representation part of a marketin" rel="nofollow">ing strategy? Relatin" rel="nofollow">ing it to schoolin" rel="nofollow">ing: The second part of the analysis should relate what you have discovered about the representation of adolescents back to schoolin" rel="nofollow">ing. Refer to academic texts to help understand this. How does the portrayal of young people effect what we do in" rel="nofollow">in the classroom? How might this type of media representation impact directly on adolescent learnin" rel="nofollow">ing, or the conditions for adolescent learnin" rel="nofollow">ing? How might this media representation in" rel="nofollow">influence your pedagogical practices in" rel="nofollow">in a secondary settin" rel="nofollow">ing? How can we avoid the media stereotypin" rel="nofollow">ing of adolescents impactin" rel="nofollow">ing on our relationships when we are in" rel="nofollow">in our classroom?