ISBN:
9780739176009
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (244 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Pedagogy of Pop : Theoretical and Practical Strategies for Success
DDC:
371.33
Keywords:
Critical pedagogy -- United States
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Education -- Social aspects -- United States
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Mass media and education -- United States
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Popular culture -- Study and teaching -- United States
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Critical pedagogy ; United States
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Education ; Social aspects ; United States
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Mass media and education ; United States
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Popular culture ; Study and teaching ; United States
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The Pedagogy of Pop: Theoretical and Practical Strategies for Success, edited by Edward A. Janak and Denise Blum, is a tool for educators at all levels to embrace infusing popular culture into their teaching in ways that both embrace and resist contemporary thinking. Its chapters provide a range of theoretical and practical suggestions-some widely accepted, some somewhat controversial-to elicit discussion and spark creativity amongst all students
Description / Table of Contents:
THE PEDAGOGY OF POP; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Past as Prologue; 1. Can We Win the Future by Living in the Past? A Preliminary Exploration of Nostalgia in Education; 2. Professional Paradox: Teachers in Film and Television; Part I: Theoretical Analyses of Pop Culture; 3. Making a Modern Man: Disney's Literacy and Health Education Campaigns in Latin and South America during WWII; 4. Uncovering Images of Teaching: Towards a Teacher-Activist Ideal; 5. "The Words We Write for Ourselves": Confronting the Myths of Race, Education, and American Genius in Finding Forrester
Description / Table of Contents:
6. "If You Should Die before You Wake…" Bart Simpson, Family Dynamics, and the Genesis of Rebellion7. From Desperate Housewives-Past and Present-to The Real Housewives of New Jersey to Simply House: Views on Family and Gender in Popular Culture; Part II: Improving Instruction, the Pop of Pedagogy; 8. Editorial Cartoons as Education: Political Cartoons as Pathways to the Pedagogy of Popular Culture; 9. Using Technology to Engage Millennials in Learning; 10. Amending Eurocentric Narratives of African History in the U.S. Classroom: A Popular Culture Approach
Description / Table of Contents:
11. Popular Culture and Teacher Education in the Twenty-First century: The Pedagogical Possibilities of Aliens in America12. "How Does This Sound?" Using Language to Characterize Race in Middle-Earth; 13. "World Goin' One Way, People Another": Using The Wire and Other Popular Culture Texts to Teach College Writing; Conclusion: The Future as Epilogue; 14. I Don't Get It and That's Okay: Teaching Experiential Film Interpretation; 15. My Conversations with Ben: What This Mother Learned from a Ghost Boy about Bullying; Index; About the Contributors
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