Michael Hayes is an Assistant Professor in Teaching and Learning in the College of Education. Currently his research focuses on issues related to media and visual culture as forms of pedagogy. In particular he is developing a perspective on visual culture, media and education in a global society.
He has been making documentary films on topics of social concern in a local and global context, including My Town, an examination of a controversy in Moscow, Idaho that is relevant to national "culture wars," With Hands Hearts and Bells,a film on the Sacred Heart Mission Indian boarding school on the Coeur d' Alene reservation.
e-mail: mthayes@wsu.edu |