Pop Culture Literacies - Teaching Interpretation, Response, and Composition in a Digital World

This book illustrates how young people engage with pop culture-music, TV, films, fashion, dance, video games, memes, and digital content in its many forms-and outlines lessons that support them in engaging more actively, critically and strategically.

List of contents

Introduction
Part One: Pop Culture Literacy Framework
1. Active Engagement
2. Critical Engagement
3. Strategic Engagement
Part Two: Pop Culture Literacy Lessons
4. The Foundations of Pop Culture Literacy
5. Layers of Story
6. Autoethnography
Conclusion

About the author

Mia Hood is a curriculum designer, writing coach, and teacher educator based in New York. She has worked as a professor of literacy and secondary education at the City University of New York and a professor of professional writing at New York University. Mia received her doctorate in Curriculum and Teaching from Teachers College, where she studied sociocultural and critical perspectives on literacy.

Summary

This book illustrates how young people engage with pop culture—music, TV, films, fashion, dance, video games, memes, and digital content in its many forms—and outlines lessons that support them in engaging more actively, critically and strategically.

Product details

• Authors: Mia Hood
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032667041
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3266704-1
• No. of pages: 202
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Teaching materials, hand-outs; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; History, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Reading Skills, EDUCATION / Curricula, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, Humanities, Secondary Schools, Teaching of a specific subject, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General, Primary & middle schools, Primary and middle schools, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Language Arts