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Popular Culture as Pedagogy

Part of the Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education Book Series (volume 95)

Editors: Jubas, Kaela; Taber, Nancy; Brown, Tony

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-6300-274-5

Publisher: SensePublishers - Springer Journals

Jan 1, 2015

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Introduction

Jubas, Kaela; Taber, Nancy; Brown, Tony

Pages: 1 –10

[This is a text about stories, about stories that are made, conveyed, and brought to life through film and television. Of course, the characters in fictional stories are not really living in the way that we are. Still, the movies, television shows, music, magazines, novels, and comic books that...
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Doctor Who Fandom, Critical Engagement, and Transmedia Storytelling

Wright, Robin Redmon; Wright, Gary L.

Pages: 11 –30

[As the opening quotation indicates, many Doctor Who fans care about improving lives and curing social ills. Meisner (2011) asserts that the Doctor is “an activist” who is “an example to concerned citizens everywhere” (p. 7). While scholars differ in their interpretations of the show’s texts,...
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Learning How to Build Community Without Following the Instructions

Odgren, Elissa

Pages: 31 –48

[My sole intention in watching The Lego Movie (Lin, Lee, Lord, & Miller, 2014) trailer was to find out why everyone else liked it so much. When the trailer began, I immediately recognized the song “Everything is AWESOME!!!” (Patterson, Bartholomew, Harriton, & The Lonely Island, 2014) that my...
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Teachers on Film

Brown, Tony

Pages: 49 –66

[Films are an important means of conveying cultural and political stories of the times. In their narrative construction and storytelling they create a public pedagogy. For hooks (1996), “cinema assumes a pedagogical role in the lives of many people. It may not be the intent of a film-maker to...
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Discourse Analysis of Adult and Workplace Learning in Nurse Jackie

Timanson, Pamela; Schindel, Theresa J.

Pages: 67 –82

[Popular culture, particularly in the form of television, has a profound influence on understandings of the social world. Television is a source of information that not only shapes public perception (Cabaniss, 2011; Wright, 2010) but also creates a cultural space where adults can learn knowledge,...
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Giving Substance to Ghostly Figures

Jubas, Kaela

Pages: 83 –101

[This chapter discusses a Canadian qualitative case study of the pedagogical function of popular or “pop” culture. The study focused on “incidental” adult learning (Malcolm, Hodkinson, & Colley, 2003; Marsick & Watkins, 2001) – the unanticipated and often unrecognized learning which occurs as...
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Narratives of Illness in South African Cinema

Treffry-Goatley, Astrid

Pages: 103 –118

[In 1994, South Africa made international history when the backward, racially segregated apartheid state was overthrown and, for the first time in history, the country became a democracy. Under the leadership of former-activist Nelson Mandela, the African National Congress (ANC) stepped into this...
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Pedagogies of Gender in a Disney Mash-Up

Taber, Nancy

Pages: 119 –133

[I have always loved fairy tales due to their magical plots and fantastical settings. I grew up watching these tales, as adapted into Disney movies and television programs, continuing to enjoy them into adulthood. Over the years, I have come to prefer fairy tale reimaginings, such as those that...
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How to be a Woman

Jarvis, Christine

Pages: 135 –150

[Buffy, Bella, Veronica, Katniss, Clary, Tris and Saba:1 For two decades post-feminist heroines have faced life-threatening trials as part of their progress to womanhood. In this chapter I consider how young adult popular fictions operate as forms of pedagogy for young women by offering them...

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