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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.
List 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
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.
Summary
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.
