Table of 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: Teaching in the K-12 Schools With Popular Culture Chapter 1 - Reclaimed Identity in Tak Toyoshima’s Secret Asian Man and Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese Tammy L. Mielke and Emily Brandon Chapter 2 - History, Literacy, and Popular Culture: Using Graphic Novels to Teach the Struggle for Racial Justice Richard Hughes, Meghan Hawkins, and Katie Lopez Chapter 3 - Karma in Comics: Discovering Hidden Superpowers through Creating Tonia A. Dousay Part II - Looking Around: Teaching in Postsecondary Schools with Popular Culture Part II - Looking Around: Teaching in Postsecondary Schools with Popular Culture Chapter 4 - Making Academia Cool: Serious Study of Sequential Art at the University Pearl Chaozon Bauer and Marc Wolterbeek Chapter 5 - Meditation: Mediating the Writing Process Jillian L. Wenburg Chapter 6 - Exploring Migration through Popular Media and Fieldwork Cadey Korson and Weronika Kusek Part III - Looking Globally: Teaching U.S. Popular Culture in Global Context Chapter 7 - A Question of Relevance: Teaching with Sci-Fi and Fantasy Film in a Saudi University Maha Al-Saati Chapter 8 - Teaching Little Professors: Autism Spectrum on TV and in the Classroom Kimberley McMahon-Coleman Part IV - Looking Ahead: Preparing Teachers With Popular Culture Chapter 9 - Poking It with a Shtick: Humor as Hermeneutic in the Pre-service Teacher Education Classroom Sarah Hunt-Barron and Richard Hartsell Chapter 10 - Orange is the New Blackboard: Lessons for Student and Teacher Advocacy Haley M. G. Ford and Meredith J. Tolson Chapter 11 - Thinking Philosophically: The Power of Pop Culture in Developing a Personal Philosophy of Education Chad William Timm Part IV - Looking Theoretically: Research Utilizing Popular Culture Chapter 12 - Using Multimodal Literacy to Teach Gender History through Comic Books or How “The Wonder Women of History” Became “Marriage A La Mode” Andrew Grunzke Chapter 13 - Exploring the Intersections of Social Identity, Popular Culture and Men in Early Childhood Education. Kenya Wolff, Melissa Chapman, and Josh Thompson Chapter 14 - 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 Crutcher and Autumn Dodge