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Educating through popular culture : you're not cool just because you teach with comics
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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 provid...
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.
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- Creator
- edited by Edward A. Janak and Ludovic A. Sourdot
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2017]
- ©2017
- Physical Details
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- xxii, 341 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781498549172, 1498549179, 9781498549196, 1498549195, 9781498549189, 9781498549189
- OCLC
- ocn974487405
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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. Reclaimed identity in Tak Toyoshima's Secret Asian man and Gene Luen Yang's American born Chinese / Tammy L. Mielke and Emily L. Brandon ; History, literacy, and popular culture : using graphic novels to teach the struggle for racial justice / Richard Hughes, Meghan Hawkins, and Katie Lopez ; Karma in comics : discovering hidden superpowers through creating / Tonia A. Dousay -- Part II: Looking around. Making academia cool : serious study of sequential art at the university / Pearl Chaozon Bauer and Marc Wolterbeek ; Meditation : mediating the writing process / Jillian L. Wenburg ; Exploring migration through popular media and fieldwork / Cadey Korson and Weronika Kusek -- Part III: Looking globally. A question of relevance : teaching with sci-fi and fantasy film in a Saudi university / Maha Al-Saati ; Teaching little professors : autism spectrum on TV and in the classroom / Kimberley McMahon-Coleman -- Part IV: Looking ahead. Poking it with a shtick : humor as hermeneutic in the pre-service teacher education classroom / Sarah Hunt-Barron and Richard Hartsell ; Orange is the new blackboard : lessons for student and teacher advocacy / Haley M.G. Ford. and Meredith J. Tolson ; Thinking philosophically : the power of pop culture in developing a personal philosophy of education / Chad William Timm -- Part V: Looking theoretically. Using multimodal literacy to teach gender history through comic books or how "the wonder women of history" became "marriage à la mode" / Andrew Grunzke ; Exploring the intersections of social identity, popular culture and men in early childhood education / Kenya Wolff, Melissa Chambers, and Josh Thompson ; 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 A. Crutcher and Autumn M. Dodge