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“Let’s Face it”

Tertiary Students Consuming, Producing, and Critically Appraising Media Representations of Contemporary Health Issues

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Through a Distorted Lens

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“Let’s face it” is a triple entendre encapsulating the premise of this chapter: that media can be used as both curriculum and pedagogy in a tertiary educational context, enabling students to become critical consumers and producers of media in the pursuit of social justice and the promotion of health.

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Capetola, T., Pallotta-Chiarolli, M. (2017). “Let’s Face it”. In: Nicosia, L.M., Goldstein, R.A. (eds) Through a Distorted Lens. Constructing Knowledge: Curriculum Studies in Action. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-017-2_9

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