Educating through popular culture : you're not cool just because you teach with comics / edited by Edward A. Janak and Ludovic A. Sourdot.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Janak, Edward A., 1970- editor.

Sourdot, Ludovic A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Social aspects--Case studies.

Education.

Popular culture--Study and teaching--Case studies.

Popular culture.

Mass media in education--Case studies.

Mass media in education.

Education in popular culture--Case studies.

Education in popular culture.

Education--Social aspects.

Popular culture--Study and teaching.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xxii; 341 pages ; 24cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2017.

Summary:

This edited volume serves as a place for teachers and scholars to begin seeking ways in which popular culture has been effectively tapped for research and teaching purposes around the country. The contents of the book came together in a way that allowed for a detailed examination of teaching with popular culture on many levels. The first part allows teachers in PreK-12 schools the opportunity to share their successful practices. The second part affords the same opportunity to teachers in community colleges and university settings. The third part shows the impact of US popular culture in classrooms around the world. The fourth part closes the loop, to some extent, showing how universities can prepare teachers to use popular culture with their future PreK-12 students. The final part of the book allows researchers to discuss the impact popular culture plays in their work. It also seeks to address a shortcoming in the field; while there are outlets to publish studies of popular culture, and outlets to publish pedagogical/practitioner pieces, there is no outlet to publish practitioner pieces on studying popular culture, in spite of the increased popularity and legitimacy of the field.

Contents:

Introduction: Educating through popular culture : "You're not cool just because you teach with comics" / Ludovic A. Sourdot and Edward Janak

Part I: Looking behind. Reclaimed identity in Tak Toyoshima's Secret Asian man and Gene Luen Yang's American born Chinese / Tammy L. Mielke and Emily L. Brandon ; History, literacy, and popular culture : using graphic novels to teach the struggle for racial justice / Richard Hughes, Meghan Hawkins, and Katie Lopez ; Karma in comics : discovering hidden superpowers through creating / Tonia A. Dousay

Part II: Looking around. Making academia cool : serious study of sequential art at the university / Pearl Chaozon Bauer and Marc Wolterbeek ; Meditation : mediating the writing process / Jillian L. Wenburg ; Exploring migration through popular media and fieldwork / Cadey Korson and Weronika Kusek

Part III: Looking globally. A question of relevance : teaching with sci-fi and fantasy film in a Saudi university / Maha Al-Saati ; Teaching little professors : autism spectrum on TV and in the classroom / Kimberley McMahon-Coleman

Part IV: Looking ahead. Poking it with a shtick : humor as hermeneutic in the pre-service teacher education classroom / Sarah Hunt-Barron and Richard Hartsell ; Orange is the new blackboard : lessons for student and teacher advocacy / Haley M.G. Ford. and Meredith J. Tolson ; Thinking philosophically : the power of pop culture in developing a personal philosophy of education / Chad William Timm

Part V: Looking theoretically. Using multimodal literacy to teach gender history through comic books or how "the wonder women of history" became "marriage à la mode" / Andrew Grunzke ; Exploring the intersections of social identity, popular culture and men in early childhood education / Kenya Wolff, Melissa Chambers, and Josh Thompson ; Loyal opposition : conservative student resistance to jazz culture in the 1920s / Jacob Hardesty

Conclusion: But I don't want to read a graphic novel : truth and nuance about pop culture in education / Paul A. Crutcher and Autumn M. Dodge.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Educating through popular culture.

ISBN:

9781498549172

1498549179

OCLC:

974487405