Representing "u" : popular culture, media, and higher education / Pauline J. Reynolds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reynolds, Pauline J., author.

Series:

ASHE higher education report ; Volume 40, Number 40.

ASHE Higher Education Report ; Volume 40, Number 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher.

Mass media and culture.

Popular culture--Study and teaching.

Popular culture.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (163 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the magazines and newspapers of the mid-1800s to movies and apps of the twenty-first century, popular culture and media in the United States provide prolific representations of higher education. This report positions artifacts of popular culture as pedagogic texts able to (mis)educate viewers and consumers regarding the purpose, values, and people of higher education. It:Discusses scholarly literature across disciplinesExamines a diverse array of cross-media artifactsReveals pedagogical messages embedded in popular culture texts to prompt thinking about the multiple ways higher education

Contents:

Representing "U": Popular Culture, Media, and Higher Education; Contents; Executive Summary; Foreword; Representing "U": Popular Higher Education; Introduction; Framing Higher Education in Popular Culture; Examining Popular Culture; What Is Popular Culture?; Media and Artifacts; Critical and Interpretivist Lenses; (Mis)educating "U"; Once Upon a "U": A Brief Historical Examination of Popular Higher Education; Introduction; Popular and Prolific "U": Examining Popular Culture; Concluding Thoughts; Being "U": The Setting of Higher Education; Introduction

Being an Institution of Higher Education: Thematic DiscoursesApart and Away; Safe and Scary; The Next Step; Seen Through Students' Gaze; Concluding Thematic "U"; Being an Institution of Higher Education Too: The Salience of Type; Four-Year Institutions in Popular Culture; Community Colleges in Popular Culture; Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Popular Culture; Women's Colleges in Popular Culture; Concluding Thoughts; Running "U": Administrators in Popular Culture; Introduction; Being a Higher Education Administrator: Types and Presence

Being a Higher Education Administrator: Thematic DiscoursesIntegrity and Its Compromise; Authority and Its Abuse; (Mis)running "U"?; Professing "U": Faculty in Popular Culture; Introduction; Categorizing Popular Culture Professors; Trusting the Professoriate; Good Guys or Bad Guys?; Intellect Versus Intelligence; Parameters of Professional Power; White, Straight, and Male: The Professorial Status Quo and Alternative Narratives; Alternative Male Narratives; The Pop Culture Ceiling: Gendered Challenges to the Status Quo; Challenging the White, Straight Female Status Quo: Alternative Narratives

Concluding ThoughtsLearning From "U": College Students in Popular Culture; Introduction; Shaping Popular Culture College Students Through Institutional Status; Being an Undergraduate Student; Being Graduate Students; Being Special; Institutions and Their Students; Popularity and Privilege in College Student Popular Culture; Belonging to "U"; We Belong to "U" Too; Gendered "U"; Social Versus Academic "U"; Concluding Thoughts; (Re)educating "U": Learning From Popular Culture; Introduction; Opportunities for (Re)education; The Dominance of Straight White Males; The Missing and the Token

The Salience of Institutional TypeAcademic-Lite Higher Education; Future Popular Culture Research; Conclusion; Notes; References; Name Index; Subject Index; About the Author; About the ASHE Higher Education Report Series; Call for Proposals; Order Form; EULA

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 1, 2014).

ISBN:

1-118-96624-4

1-118-96625-2

OCLC:

889675065