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Fandoms in the Classroom : A Social Justice Approach to Transforming Literacy Learning.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Karis.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture in education.
- Literacy--Social aspects.
- Literacy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (154 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomfield : Myers Education Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- This book explores the integration of fandom culture into classroom teaching to promote social justice and transform literacy learning. Written for educators, it examines how engaging with students' fandom interests—ranging from popular media to digital communities—can foster critical literacy skills, inclusivity, and personal agency. The authors provide practical strategies for designing lessons, objectives, and assessments that connect academic disciplines with fandoms, creating meaningful and humanizing learning experiences. The book also addresses challenges such as curricular mandates, censorship, and navigating mature content while emphasizing the importance of student identity and agency. It advocates for leveraging fandoms as tools for collaboration, creativity, and equity in education. Generated by AI.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Book Title
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgement
- Foreword: Teachers as Fans, and What Fandom Can Teach Us
- Introduction
- Teacher-Researcher Positionalities
- Karis
- Scott
- Structure of This Book
- Chapter 1: Why Fandoms?
- What is a Fandom?
- Texts
- Fans
- Interpretive Communities
- Fandoms Matter for School
- Learning Across Academic and Fandom Spaces
- Co-Creating Expansive Goals
- Learning Across Interpretive Communities
- Chapter 2: Shifting Models for Teaching
- Fandoms as a Student-Centered Teaching Model
- The High School Context
- Fandom Kingdom
- Toward Student-Centered Classrooms
- Chapter 3: Designing Objectives Together
- Celebrating but Not Co-Opting
- Expansive Literacy Learning Objectives
- Short-Term Goals Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 9781975506186
- 1975506189
- OCLC:
- 1492929374
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