Lara Margaret Beaty

 

          

Contact Information:



Office Hours for Fall 2008:


Mondays
2:15-3:15

Wednesdays
5:00-6:00

&

by appointment


LaGuardia Community College
City University of New York
Social Science Department
31-10 Thomson Avenue
Long Island City, NY 11101

Office phone: 718-482-5796
Office: E235B

larabeaty@gmail.com
lbeaty@lagcc.cuny.edu

Courses:

SSY101

SSY240


Research:



  

I am currently focussed on high school video production as a way of understanding the student-school relationship. I am  studying the connection between social relations and academic activity in high schools as visible and audible in the videotapes made by students. Student-made videos show how the camera operators are relating to the activity around them and how well they "communicate" with the tools of video cameras and editing programs. By noting the changes from one moment to the next, I explore learning and development, their connections, and their differences. In the process of producing videos, the "participation" of material and social contexts become uniquely visible. I seek to explain the intricate dance that emerges between the camera operator and the context, which shows a world of missed moments and invisible successes that begin to connect and explain long term performance.

   



Dissertation:





"Give me space!" Situated video production and high school social relations
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, City University of New York Graduate Center, 2005.

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Other Writing:





Concept Development in Action: Adolescent Development in One Student-Made Video
From a Vygotskian Perspective. American Educational Research Association's 2007 Annual Meeting,
Chicago, IL, 2007.
Download pdf file.

Transcending the prototype of high school video production:
Illicit activity, forgotten directions, and invisible processes as a guid for teachers.
27th Anual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA, 2006.
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[Review of the book A critical guide to literacy, video production, and social change,]
by Steven Goodman, in Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 34 (4), 2003.


“The Technology of Video Production, Classroom Practices, and the Development of a Student voice in a Changing World,”
84th Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association, Chicago, IL, 2003.









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