ABOUT
Jeff Share worked for ten years as an award-winning freelance photojournalist, documenting situations of poverty and social activism on three continents. In 1995, he became a bilingual elementary school teacher at Leo Politi Elementary School in Pico Union. After seven years, Share left the classroom to work as the Regional Coordinator for Training at the Center for Media Literacy where he wrote curricula and led professional development. He then earned his Ph.D. in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA and worked for a decade as faculty advisor in the Teacher Education Program at UCLA with new teachers in the master’s level credentialing program. He now teaches in the undergraduate major in Education and Social Transformation as well as the minor in Information and Media Literacy at UCLA. Share also provides professional development training in critical media literacy with teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District as well as educators across the US and internationally. He has worked as an Educational Consultant in India and Germany, Visiting Scholar in China and Mexico, and a Fulbright Program Specialist in Argentina. His current research and practice focus on the teaching of critical media literacy in K-12 education. In 2015, Share published the second edition of, Media Literacy is Elementary: Teaching Youth to Critically Read and Create Media. He is currently researching the connections between climate change, environmental justice, and critical media literacy. In 2017, he published Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents: Reading, Writing, and Making a Difference with Richard Beach and Allen Webb. Working with Douglas Kellner, in 2019 they published The Critical Media Literacy Guide: Engaging Media and Transforming Education.
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