Educating through Popular Culture: You're Not Cool Just Because You Teach with Comics

Educating through Popular Culture: You're Not Cool Just Because You Teach with Comics

Educating through Popular Culture: You're Not Cool Just Because You Teach with Comics

Educating through Popular Culture: You're Not Cool Just Because You Teach with Comics

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Overview

Educating through Popular Culture is a tool for educators at all levels to improve their practice via popular culture in ways that both embrace and resist contemporary thinking. Its chapters provide a range of theoretical and practical suggestions to elicit discussion and spark creativity in all students.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781498549172
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication date: 03/01/2017
Pages: 364
Product dimensions: 6.19(w) x 9.44(h) x 1.07(d)

About the Author

Edward Janak is associate professor and chair of the Department of Educational Foundations and Leadership at the University of Toledo. Ludovic A. Sourdot is associate professor of curriculum and instruction in the Department of Teacher Education at Texas Woman’s University.

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
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