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Acclaimed filmmaker, Anders Østergaard, brings us close to the video journalists who deliver the footage. Though risking torture and life in jail, courageous young citizens of Burma live the essence of journalism as they insist on keeping up the flow of news from their closed country. Armed with small handycams the Burma VJs stop at nothing to make their reportages from the streets of Rangoon. Their material is smuggled out of the country and broadcast...

"Over three and a half decades, Ted Conover has ridden the rails with hoboes, crossed the border with Mexican immigrants, guarded prisoners in Sing Sing, and inspected meat for the USDA. His books and articles chronicling these experiences, including the award-winning Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, have made him one of the premier practitioners of immersion reporting. In immersion reporting--a literary cousin to ethnography, travel writing, and memoir--the...

"When children look at works of art they tell stories, share experiences, imagine, and explore. This book provides teachers with the skills, and freedom, to design rich and open-ended art experiences for young children. The author looks at the work of a variety of artists and offers guidance for using these artworks as taking-off points for conversations and creativity with a range of materials. She demonstrates that using fine art reproductions in...

This edited work looks at how the concept of inquiry-based learning can be applied to all subject areas. Inquiry learning is similar to many other popular forms of curriculum and instruction, including student-centered and activity-based. Covering History, Social Studies, Geography, Mathematics, English, Language Arts, and Special Education, this practitioner-friendly book includes tools, strategies, sample lesson plans and assessment strategies....

Contains excerpts from the writings of Ida Mae Tarbell -- Lincoln Steffens -- Upton Sinclair -- Margaret Sanger -- George Seldes -- John Steinbeck -- J. William Fulbright -- Rachel Carson -- I.F. Stone -- Edward R. Murrow -- Jessica Mitford -- Betty Friedan -- Malcolm X -- Michael Harrington -- Paul Brodeur -- Paul Ehrlich -- Ralph Nader -- Seymour Hersh -- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein -- Frances Moore Lappé.

"New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at a small news agency that produces a website read by Chinese all over the world. Danlin's explosive exposés have made him legendary among readers--and feared by Communist officials. But his newest assignment may be his undoing: investigating his ex-wife, Yan Haili, an unscrupulous novelist who has willingly become a pawn of the Chinese government in order to realize...

"Rethinking Preparation for Content Area Teaching describes a broad array of inquiry-oriented activities, protocols, and exercises for enabling teachers to gain expertise in improving adolescent reading - whether learning how to model and demystify reading processes for their students or how to assess the strengths that students bring to the process. The activities can be adapted to preservice courses in instructional methods or reading in the content...

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein exemplify on era when investigative reporters were seen as courageous fighters of corruption and injustice. Their epoch-making expose of the Watergate conspiracy not only contributed to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon but also set the standard to which successive generations of investigative reporters have aspired. In Watergate's Legacy and the Press, John Marshall recounts this captivating story and...

Student inquiry is an active learning process that allows students to investigate central, essential questions linked to curriculum standards and specific teaching objectives. Essential questions maybe created by the teacher or by the students, but when this guided inquiry process is enhanced by the use of everyday objects (seashells, feathers, flowers, rocks, etc) teachers can cover required concepts while simultaneously honouring student curiosity...