Jeff Share

(jshare@ucla.edu)

Jeff Share worked for ten years as a freelance photojournalist documenting situations of poverty and social activism on three continents.  His photographs were published nationally and international.  In 1987 he won First Prize News Features/Series and the Oskar Barnack Award at World Press Photo.

He spent six years teaching bilingual primary school in the Los Angeles Unified School District.  During this time he also earned his Master’s Degree from Vermont College, focusing on: Media Literacy for Transformative Education.

After spending several years as the Regional Coordinator for Training at the Center for Media Literacy, he earned his Ph.D. in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Jeff currently works as a Faculty Advisor for UCLA’s Teacher Education Program and continues his research and practice focusing on the teaching of critical media literacy in K-12 education.

PUBLICATIONS

Ø      Jeff Share & Elizabeth Thoman, (2007).  Teaching Democracy: A Media Literacy Approach.  Los Angeles: National Center for the Preservation of Democracy.  Available online at: http://www.ncdemocracy.org/sites/ncdemocracy.org/files/docs/D+Dweb_educators_guide.pdf

Ø      Douglas Kellner & Jeff Share, (2007).  Critical Media Literacy, Democracy, and the Reconstruction of Education.  In Media Literacy:  A Reader.  Eds:  Donaldo Macedo and Shirley R. Steinberg.  New York:  Peter Lang Publishing. (pp. 3-23).

Ø      Douglas Kellner & Jeff Share, (2007).  Critical Media Literacy:  crucial policy choices for a twenty-first-century democracy.  In Policy Futures in Education.  Online-only journal published by Symposium Journals. Vol 5, No. 1, http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/ (pp. 59-69).

Ø      Douglas Kellner & Jeff Share, (2007).  Critical Media Literacy is Not an Option.  In J.W. Hunsinger and J. Nolan (Eds.) Learning Inquiry.  Springer.   Available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11519-007-0004-2

Ø      Rich Van Heertum & Jeff Share (2007, Fall).  “A New Direction for Multiple Literacy Education.”  In McGill Journal of Education.  McGill University: Quebec, Montreal.  Vol. 41, No. 3, (pp. 249-265).

Ø      Jeff Share,  (2006, Fall).  Media Literacy for Children of the New Millennium.  In The Journal of Media Literacy.  Vol. 53, No. 2.  (pp. 60-64).

Ø      Jeff Share, (2006).  “Media Literacy is Elementary.”  In Democracy and Education, Institute for Democracy and Education, v16, No.1.

Ø      Douglas Kellner & Jeff Share (2005).  “Toward Critical Media Literacy: Core concepts, debates, organizations and policies.”  In Discourse: Studies in the cultural politics of education.  The University of Queensland, Australia: Routledge.  Vol 26, No. 3,  (pp. 369-386).

Ø      Douglas Kellner & Jeff Share  (2005, September 15).  “Media Literary in the US.”  Online journal MedienPädagogik, http://www.medienpaed.com/05-1/kellner_share05-1.pdf

Ø      Jeff Share, (2005).  Five Key Questions That Can Change the World: Classroom Activities in Media Literacy.  Los Angeles: Center for Media Literacy.  Available online at: http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article661.html

Ø      Jeff Share, (2003).  “Media Literacy for Transformative Education” on the Internet at Freire Online: A Journal of the Paulo Freire Institute/UCLA: http://www.paulofreireinstitute.org/freireonline/volume1/1share2.html

Ø      Share Vargas, (Autumn 2001). “Mexican Rebels and the Media.”  In Media Education Journal, issue 30, produced by the Association for Media Education in Scotland (AMES), (pp.59-60).

Ø      Jeff Share, “Educación mediática para la justicia social: Una perspectiva estadounidense” (Media Education for Social Justice: a US perspective), located on the internet at the National University of Distance Education in Spain (UNED): http://www.uned.es/ntedu/espanol/master/primero/modulos/teoria-de-la-representacion/JSS-Media-Ed-Sp.htm

Ø      Jeff Share, (January 15, 2001).  “Educación mediática para la justicia social” (Media Education for Social Justice), in Quartopoder: El Medio de los Medios (a state magazine in Oaxaca, Mexico), No. 24, 2A.

Ø      Ibid., “¿Mienten las fotos?”, (Do Photographs Lie?), February 15, 2001, No. 25, 2A-3A.

Ø      Ibid., “La injusticia social creada por los medios”, (The Social Injustice Created by the Media), February 28, 2001, No. 27, 2A.

Ø      Ibid., “Mitos socials y estereotipos”, (Social Myths and Stereotypes), March 15, 2001, No. 28, 17.

Ø      Ibid., “Neoliberalismo vs. Democracia”, (Neoliberalism vs. Democracy), March 31, 2001, No. 29, 2A.

Ø      Ibid., “El periodismo y el mito de la objetividad”, (Journalism and the Myth of Objectivity), April 15, 2001, No. 30, 2A.

Ø      Laura Vargas Díaz & Jeff Share.  (Spring, 1995).  “Reclaiming Cultural Literacy.”  In Hands On: A Journal for Teachers, Issue 50, Mountain City: Foxfire Fund.