Educating Through Popular Culture - You''re Not Cool Just Because You Teach With Comics

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 Migrat

About the author

Andrew L. Grunzke is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Guam.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Janak, Edward A. Sourdot Janak, Edward Sourdot Janak
• Assisted by: Edward Janak (Editor), Edward A. Janak (Editor), Janak Edward (Editor), Ludovic A. Sourdot (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781498549196
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4919-6
• No. of pages: 364
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Fachspezifischer Unterricht, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / Social Science, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Philosophy and theory of education, Educational: Citizenship and social education, Educational: Citizenship & social education, Educational strategies and policy, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Topics / General