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“Using Popular Culture Sources To Increase Engagement Among College Students”. Program Proposal Developed for the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning Professional Development Intensive Workshop Facilitated by: Dr. Elizabeth (Scout) Blum Professor of History, Associate Chair
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“Using Popular Culture Sources To Increase Engagement Among College Students” Program Proposal Developed for the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning Professional Development Intensive Workshop Facilitated by: Dr. Elizabeth (Scout) Blum Professor of History, Associate Chair Troy University
Popular Culture • Definition
How I Come At The Use ofPopular Culture Sources • Research • Classes
Pedagogy • Uses of popular culture • Increased Engagement • Luke, Media Literacy and Cultural Studies (1997) • Popular Culture as Demonstrating Power Relationships in Society • George Lipsitz, “The Politics and Pedagogy of Popular Culture in Contemporary Textbooks.” • Janet Lee, “Integrating Popular Culture into a Pedagogy of Resistance.” • Popular Culture as Solving Pedagogical/Societal Issues of Inequality • Ernest Morrell, “Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Popular Culture.” • Meg Callahan and Bronwen Low, “At the Crossroads of Expertise.”
Pedagogy • Uses of Popular Culture: Film
Pedagogy • Uses of Popular Culture: Film • Increase levels of critical thinking (Step 1) • Looking at the accuracy of a source • Sally Hadden, “How Accurate Is the Film?” [Amistad] • Gregory Bassham and Henry Nardone, “Using the Film ‘JFK’ to Teach Critical Thinking” • Increase levels of critical thinking (Step 2) • Looking at themes/bigger picture/context • Howard Jones, “Cinque of the Amistad a Slave Trader?” • Robert Rosenstone, “JFK: Historical Fact/Historical Film”
Pedagogy: Cautions/Warnings • Setting context/background absolutely necessary • Care needs to be taken when asserting a historical (or other) “truth” • Time limitations: problems with using only one source
Pedagogy: Benefits • Students are engaged • Students can connect material to everyday life outside and after the classroom experience • Students as “co-experts” • Students begin to understand that there may not just be one “truth” out there • Sara Schwebel, Child-Sized History (2011)
Samples of Popular Culture Use • Topical Material: Gender Differences/Oppression
Messages of Power/Gender • Association with animals - primitivism • Blueberries for Sal (1948) by Robert McCloskey
Messages of Gender Roles/ Appropriate Behavior • Gender • The Wild Birthday Cake (1949) by Lavinia Davis
Messages of Gender Roles/ Appropriate Behavior • Gender • The Wild Birthday Cake (1949) by Lavinia Davis
Messages of Gender Roles/ Appropriate Behavior • Gender • Play With Me (1955) by Marie Hall Ets
Messages of Gender Roles/ Appropriate Behavior • Gender • Play With Me (1955) by Marie Hall Ets
Messages of Gender Roles/ Appropriate Behavior • Gender • Play With Me (1955) by Marie Hall Ets
Samples of Popular Culture Use • Topical Material: Racial Differences/Oppression
Messages of Racial Differences/Gender • Gender • Hawk, I’m Your Brother (1976) by Byrd Baylor
Messages of Racial Differences/Gender • Gender • Hawk, I’m Your Brother (1976) by Byrd Baylor
Messages of Racial Differences/Gender • Gender • Hawk, I’m Your Brother (1976) by Byrd Baylor
Messages of Racial Differences/Gender • Gender • The Girl Who Loved Horses (1978) by Paul Goble
Messages of Racial Differences/Gender • Gender • The Girl Who Loved Horses (1978) by Paul Goble
Messages of Racial Differences/Gender • Gender • The Girl Who Loved Horses (1978) by Paul Goble
Resistance/Agency/Challenges to Authority • Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1949), by Dr. Seuss
Resistance/Agency/Challenges to Authority • Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1949), by Dr. Seuss
Resistance/Agency/Challenges to Authority • Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1949), by Dr. Seuss
Resistance/Agency/Challenges to Authority • Where the Wild Things Are (1963), by Maurice Sendak
Resistance/Agency/Challenges to Authority • Where the Wild Things Are (1963), by Maurice Sendak