The past as prologue. Can we win the future by living in the past? A preliminary exploration of nostalgia in education / Jennifer Edelman and Edward Janak -- Professional paradox: teachers in film and television / Sheila Delony and Mikee Delony -- pt. I. Theoretical analyses of pop culture. Making a modern man: Disney's literacy and health education campaigns in Latin and South America during WWII / Julie Prieto -- Uncovering images of teaching: towards a teacher-activist ideal / Sylvia Mac and Denise Blum -- "The words we write for ourselves": confronting the myths of race, education, and American genius in Finding Forrester / Joanna Davis-McElligatt and Forrest Roth -- "If you should die before you wake": Bart Simpson and the genesis of rebellion / Brian N. Duchaney -- From Desperate Housewives--past and present--to The Real Housewives of New Jersey to simply House: views on family and gender in popular culture / Amy Neeman and David Newman -- pt. II. Improving instruction, the pop of pedagogy. Editorial cartoons as education: political cartoons as pathways to the pedagogy of popular culture / Richard Ellefritz -- Using technology to engage millennials in learning / Bob Reese -- Amending Eurocentric narratives of African history in the U.S. classroom: a popular culture approach / Fred N. Waweru and Mwenda Ntarangwi -- Popular culture and teacher education in the twenty-first century: the pedagogical possibilities of Aliens in America / Ludovic A. Sourdot -- "How does this sound?" Using language to characterize race in Middle-Earth / Jennifer Culver -- "World goin' one way, people another": using The Wire and other popular culture texts to teach college writing / Michelle Parke -- The future as epilogue. I don't get it and that's okay: teaching experiential film interpretation / Jade Lynch-Greenberg and esteban garcia -- My conversations with Ben: what this mother learned from a ghost boy about bullying / Yvette Benavides