Full Description
From the television we watch and the films we consume to the experience of user-generated content, this volume explores various forms of popular culture as teaching tools. Teaching popular culture well hinges on the application, not the mere inclusion of popular culture artifacts. It is the nuance of praxis where theory meets practice, the artful marriage of academic knowledge with popular culture. In this volume, the authors leverage popular culture as a powerful teaching tool that is familiar and accessible. This tool provides a lens for approaching complex academic experiences and elucidating new concepts in applications that have been tested and applied in the classroom. Each essay outlines the theory that underpins elegant integrations of popular culture into learning.
Contents
Part I: Engaging Students
Chapter 1
Leveraging Internet Culture for Community Building in Online Classrooms
Ashley M. Archiopoli
Chapter 2
Create a Comic Book Character: Showcasing Identity, Representation, and DEI Through Critical and Creative Skills
Anthony Ramirez
Chapter 3
Teaching Person-Environment Fit with the Movie Soul
Steven Rodriguez Jr.
Part II: Analysis and Applications
Chapter 4
Exploring and Expanding Moral Philosophy through Science Fiction
James M. Okapal
Chapter 5
Making Meaning in a Shifting World: Teaching Media Literacy through Everything Everywhere All At Once
Melissa Eriko Poulsen
Chapter 6
The Numbers Don't Lie - or Do They? An Exercise in Decoding a Historical Film
Peter Burkholder
Part III: Narrative and Storytelling
Chapter 7
Teaching Narrative Performance Theory with Disney's Encanto
Elizabeth Fish Hatfield
Chapter 8
The Many Stories of Hugh Glass: From the Frontier to the Big Screen and Leonardo DiCaprio's First Oscar
Devan Charles Lindey
Chapter 9
Yesterday: A Beatles Oral History Project
John F. Lyons
Part IV: Exploring Identity
Chapter 10
Teaching Black Lives Matter Through Hip-Hop
Nick J. Sciullo
Chapter 11
Exploring Difficult History Lessons, Identity Construction, the Artistic Expansion of Sitcom
Storytelling Tools in the Black-ish Episode, Juneteenth
Sabrina Voelz
Chapter 12
Teaching Competent Cross-Cultural Communication with Abbott Elementary
Katherine Hampsten
