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	Teaching Culture
		Of all the changes that have affected language teaching theory and method in recent years, the greatest may be the transformation in the role of culture.
		Traditionally, culture was understood in terms of formal or "high" culture (literature, art, music, and philosophy) and popular or "low" culture.
		The pop culture is regarded as inferior and not worthy of study.
	www.nclrc.org /essentials/culture/cuindex.htm (536 words)

	Reading Online - New Literacies: The Media Literacy Department from JAAL
		Popular culture, they argued, is not an imposed mass culture or a people's culture, it is more a terrain of exchange between the two.
		That is, any pedagogy of popular culture has to be a critical pedagogy where students and teachers learn from and with one another while engaging in authentic dialogue that is centered on the experiences of urban youth as participants in and creators of popular culture (Freire, 1970; Giroux, 1997; hooks, 1994; McLaren, 1989).
		Much of the excitement about popular culture in the United States is tempered by the recent focus, at the state and national levels, on standardized tests as the sole evaluators of academic merit and skill.
	www.readingonline.org /newliteracies/jaal/9-02_column (2912 words)

	Teaching Popular Culture
		As a discipline, popular culture studies "can be fairly said to have acquired more momentum than direction, and achieved more enthusiasm than cohesion."(4) It seems only natural that this material, obviously such a young discipline, would present challenges for inexperienced teachers and inexperienced college students (here, I refer to first-year teachers teaching first-year undergraduates).
		Kammen observes that the ideology behind popular culture does not always "work in conjunction with efforts to minimize or ameliorate class differences" and can even serve "to build consensus about a (homogenized) national identity."(5) This sounds strangely reminiscent of the debate over cultural literacy sparked by Hirsch and Bloom in the late 1980s.
		Coffee as popular culture provides the gateway to considering this item across the lines of cultural hierarchy (including the historical perspective, which is often associated with high culture).
	sites.unc.edu /daniel/131spring99/papers/kea.html (2184 words)

	BIr Teaching, Autumn 2004, Titley, Studying Popular Culture
		The course approaches popular culture as an “empty conceptual category’” that needs to be examined in relation to the categories – such as folk culture, high culture and mass culture – that are often placed in opposition to it.
		By analysing particular debates about popular culture in their relevant contexts, the course aims to tease out the standards, tastes and values that guide approaches to popular culture and its socio-cultural significance.
		Discussing popular culture has consistently involved discussing taste, pleasure and personal agency, and it has subsequently involved advocating or making interventions in questions of education and personal action.
	www.helsinki.fi /hum/renvall/bir/teaching/2004_popculture_titley.html (282 words)

	Japanese Popular Culture in the Classroom \| Japan Digest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Popular culture can give glimpses into Japanese life, social issues, and trends.
		There are various teaching resources and methods for using popular culture to enhance any class.
		There are advantages to using popular culture, and many ways to incorporate it into your class.
	www.indiana.edu /~japan/digest3.html (1447 words)

	Media Education parts 1 and 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Popular culture, fed and maintained by the mass media, is probably the single most influential factor in shaping young people's perception of the world.
		It asks how best can popular culture be taught, by whom, and where in the curriculum, and suggests that there may be opportunity for creative ways of teaching about popular culture in the art room as well as in the media studies classroom, including creative production and/or the reworking of texts.
		Popular culture meanwhile, mobilises the tactile the incidental, the transitory, the expendable, the visceral.
	interact.uoregon.edu /MediaLit/mlr/readings/articles/mediaed.html (4112 words)

	Pop cultured
		"What I teach is a kind of broad introduction to popular art with an emphasis on popular music and then with an even further emphasis on rock 'n' roll because in the last 40 years, rock 'n' roll has obviously been the most important thing in popular culture," Kelly said.
		Kelly's wife, Nancy, said he brings his love for popular culture into their home and that he is now combining his love for teaching with his love for popular culture.
		For Kelly, teaching about popular culture is something he said he would be happy doing for the rest of his career.
	www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/1997/10/10-30-97tdc/10-30-97d01-004.asp (1712 words)

	PeterWatkins_Appendix8
		As I describe here, the dominant forms of media education - the teaching of popular culture, and vocational media training - have largely succeeded in convincing several generations of students that the questions of media process and form and their relationship to ideology are not problems, indeed they are not even issues.
		Part of the contemporary tragedy is that the audiovisual popular culture is taught, especially at the tertiary level, as a model to be achieved.
		A further dilemma with the present TV and cinema popular culture - one for which many educators share a prime responsibility - is that it continues to exist as one large, gross and crude form, without complexity, subtlety or variety.
	www.mnsi.net /~pwatkins/appendix_8.htm (768 words)

	The History of Jim Crow
		This image functioned as the racial bedrock of American popular culture after 1900, especially manifested in minstrel shows, the vaudeville theatre, songs and music, film and radio, and commercial advertising.
		Perhaps, the most popular of all the Jim Crow industries by 1900 was the sheet music field, which made the derogatory word "coon" a part of everyday language.
		Most popular were the racist trading or advertisement cards that used the outrageous images of fl people to sell everything from yeast to furniture, pillows, fertilizers, hardware, cigars, breakfast food, and tobacco.
	www.jimcrowhistory.org /resources/lessonplans/hs_es_popular_culture.htm (1752 words)

	Kirwin R. Shaffer \| Popular Culture and the Teaching of History: The Modern Caribbean History Course \| The History ...
		Because popular culture expresses the imaginations, interpretations and values of historical actors, a Caribbean history course could appropriately be filled with multiple examples of popular culture, including feature films, music, novels, short stories, and examples of sports and popular religious expression.
		These samples of popular culture become "historical documents" to be studied in the same way that a student might study acts manumitting slaves, official proclamations of independence, or famous political speeches.
		Thus, while political and economic approaches are important, a popular culture approach tends to shift the focus away from decision makers and more to the points of view of those affected by the actions of decision makers.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/ht/37.3/shaffer.html (6007 words)

	When Fiction is Reality: Critical Thinking and Popular Culture
		In Yearning (1990), author bell hooks describes how her family taught her to be an astute consumer of popular culture, to contrast the reality of her daily life as a fl woman with the depiction of her race on television and in the movies, industries controlled by the dominant white class.
		The sources come from different historical periods, different cultures by virtue of geography and race, and different formats: one is historical fact; another is a play based on history; yet another is a novel; and the last is a commentary on human behavior in the form of a proverb.
		Finally, connectivity has been proposed as a means of synthesizing the vast amounts of data produced by popular culture, and determining those truths that have meaning in the lives of the individual, and for society as a whole.
	www.angelfire.com /or3/tss4/fictreal.html (4450 words)

	Culture and Teaching (Ph.D. program) - Curriculum and Instruction - University of Minnesota
		She employs ethnographic methodology and engages critical, cultural and feminist theories to explore the implications of globalization and immigration for teaching, learning and curriculum.
		Currently, her research seeks to explicate the impact of culture change on Hmong students' education, and the implications for how we theorize immigrant identity and anti-oppressive education.
		Drawing on research practices in cultural and media studies, he’s interested in the contexts in which writing takes place and the possibilities for new literacies that are emerging from new technologies.
	education.umn.edu /CI/Programs/CAT/PhD.html (1211 words)

	Culturelink Network - Network News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The Department of Communications, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada, invites applications for a probationary (tenure-track) appointment at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor in Popular Culture, effective 1 July 2007.
		Candidates with teaching and research interests in folklore and folk life, material culture, non-mass-mediated forms of popular entertainment and/or non-western forms of popular culture are especially encouraged to apply.
		In addition to contributing to undergraduate teaching in the Popular Culture programme (including introductory courses), the successful candidate will be expected to develop a strong externally-funded program of research and scholarship in the area of expertise, contribute to curriculum development, and participate fully in the affairs of the Department.
	www.culturelink.org /news/network/news2006-010.html (291 words)

	Nada's Teaching Culture- pb4
		Teachers may not have been adequately trained in the teaching of culture and, therefore, do not have strategies and clear goals that help them to create a viable framework for organizing instruction around cultural themes.
		The development of such a framework depends in part on the definition of culture, which has been the source of much of the difficulty in designing quality instruction.
		"Culture" is a broad concept that embraces all aspects of human life.
	members.fortunecity.com /nadabs/teachingculture-pb4.htm (441 words)

	79.02.06: The 1920s: The Rise of Consumer Culture
		I disagree with those who say “Teach the facts in high school, the interpretations in college.” This view supports Jerome Bruner’s contention that “any subject can be taught in an intellectually honest way at any grade level.” Here, of course, the subject is historiography, not history.
		Historians disagree on the degree of prosperity in the 1920s, the role of advertising, and the nature of the “popular culture” of the decade.
		Popular culture, the third issue of this unit, is a very broad topic.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1979/2/79.02.06.x.html (2470 words)

	POPULAR CULTURE
		She provides an incisive look at how different artistic and cultural practices develop in contemporary consumer culture, by examining the new populism of young artists such as Damien Hirst and Tracy Emin and the proliferation of underground forms of dance music.
		The author explores the cultures of the world, venturing from cavespace to tomb space, to temple space, then medieval space, to modern space and post-modern epochs, and finally to cyberspace.
		It argues for the linking of high and low for the study and appreciation of each form of literature, and the importance of teaching popular culture alongside books of the great tradition in order to understand the critical context in which the books appear.
	www.library.uiuc.edu /cmx/books/2000-1/popculture.htm (559 words)

	M/C Journal
		What students of media cultures do not expect is that their personal pleasures and longings will be socially situated and theorized as a dialogue about the politics of representation.
		Foregrounding the pleasures of sexual images in teaching popular culture is tricky because they are hard to predict or contain for analysis.
		A cultural sign such as a song or music video becomes mediated through intellectual, emotional and energetic interpretants, to comprise a “habit-change,” changes in consciousness and concrete action in the social world.
	journal.media-culture.org.au /0410/03_teaching.php (2225 words)

	BGSU ::Departments::Popular Culture
		The Department of Popular Culture is in the College of Arts and Sciences.
		Mission: The Center for Popular Culture Studies promotes the interdisciplinary study of Popular Culture through excellence in teaching, learning, scholarly activity, and engagement with the diverse and multicultural communities of Ohio, the United States, and the world.
		A similar project which reported on the current overall status of popular culture studies at colleges and universities in the United States was conducted by Mark A. Gordon and Jack Nachbar in 1979.This study, Currents of Warm Life: Popular Culture in American Higher Education, was published in 1980.
	www.bgsu.edu /departments/popc/page13192.html (801 words)

	Learning Partners: A Service-Learning Approach to Popular Culture
		In fact, the service-learning aspect of this project is only one which readers may find innovative; I could as easily have positioned this paper as one on the necessity of "outsider" views in any discussion of American culture, or on the use of web-based resources and tools in the teaching of popular culture.
		In the seven years I have taught AMST 212, it became obvious that it was easier for the students to grasp the complexity of the term "American" when there were international students in the class than when all if the students had grown up in the United States.
		The American Cultures program focuses on the interdisciplinary study of diversity; students learn to understand the ethnic, religious, socioeconomic, etc, dimensions of their own identities and the identities of others.
	www.glue.umd.edu /~jpaol/SLEARN.htm (1398 words)

	Teaching Sociology: Abstracts, Volume 26, Number 3, July 1998
		The assignment also proves to be an effective teaching tool for illuminating various other sociological concepts, such as the differential distribution of power as well as gender and race inequality.
		Sociologists are finding that popular culture can act as an effective teaching tool in a variety of sociology courses.
		The Editor of Teaching Sociology is Helen A. Moore.
	www.lemoyne.edu /ts/26tsabstracts3.html (1100 words)

	COE @ MSU > TE Research Reports > Children's Literacy Development
		However, he argues that an approach like critical teaching of popular culture can help students deconstruct the dominant narratives and contend with oppressive practices in hopes of achieving a more egalitarian and inclusive society.
		In both cases, the introduction of popular culture allowed student to engage with the subject matter and laid the groundwork for more traditional academic work while fostering student activism.
		Morrell, E. "Toward a critical pedagogy of popular culture: Literacy development among urban youth." Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy (46), 72-77.
	www.educ.msu.edu /reports/teresearch/2004/february3.htm (400 words)

	Amazon.com: Trash Culture: Popular Culture and the Great Tradition: Books: Richard Keller Simon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The popular culture that surrounds us in our daily lives bears a striking similarity to some of the great works of literature of the past.
		In Trash Culture, Richard K. Simon examines the ways in which the great literature and cultural work of the past has been rewritten for today's consumer society, with supermarket tabloids such as The National Enquirer and celebrity gossip magazines like People serving as contemporary versions of the great dramatic tragedies of the past.
		Based on the postmodern premise that there is value in both high Culture and low culture, Simon bases his chapters on well-tested (in the Cal Poly classroom where he teaches) theories that many elements of recent culture are easier to interpret when compared and contrasted with High Culture.
	www.amazon.com /Trash-Culture-Popular-Great-Tradition/dp/0520222237 (1384 words)

	Bestsellers: Books in American Popular Culture
		The purpose of this assignment is not to teach students to write in a manner that will please anyone outside of the classroom but to program them to follow orders, regimented activities, and leaders who do not always have the students best interests at heart.
		What we need to do is teach students “correct magic,” a process that is twofold: the ability to see through the linguistic trickery of advertisers, politicians and the like, and the ability to create our own more appropriate magical spells.
		John Taylor Gatto argues that American education was designed to strip students of their power, and teach them obedience in order to prepare them to fill the millions of factory jobs that were opening up at the turn of the last century.
	www.americanpopularculture.com /archive/bestsellers/harry_potter.htm (1908 words)

	Popular Culture, Subculture, and Cultural Studies (Yale Research Guide for Mass Media and Popular Culture)
		Explanations and examples of "culture jamming." Mark Dery, who popularized the term, defines culture jamming as "media hacking, information warfare, terror-art, and guerrilla semiotics, all in one." Well-known culture jammers include Adbusters,
		This guide concentrates on cultural theory: texts by and about cultural theorists and texts on some of the main areas of current study, for example, postmodernism, gender, identity, cyberculture, Black and postcolonial studies.
		This site focuses on the critical analysis of popular culture in the United States, including its international impact.
	www.library.yale.edu /humanities/media/popularculture.html (639 words)

	Bibliography of Popular Music Teaching Resources - Bibliography Popular Music and Society - Find Articles
		"Teaching with Popular Music Resources: A Bibliography of Interdisciplinary Instructional Approaches," Popular Music and Society 22.2 (Summer 1998): 10.3-34, and B. Lee Cooper, "Rock Music in the Classroom: An Interdisciplinary Bibliography of Teaching Approaches," Journal of Popular Music Studies, in press.
		The following resources are limited to book-length studies, with special attention to works of authors who contributed to this anthology and to scholars who have influenced their pedagogical thinking and instructional practices.
		Browne, Ray B. Against Academia: The History of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association and the Popular Culture Movement, 1967-1988.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2822/is_4_23/ai_69434762 (571 words)

	Columbia College Chicago Library - Cultural Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		If you are analyzing or researching a subject or item that does not fall into this category, you may find it useful to browse other sections of our Reference collection for books pertaining to art [709], literature [800s], music [780s], and cultures associated with specific countries or peoples [305].
		Each entry describes the topic and analyzes its significance in and relevance to American popular culture.
		This work covers the "key movers, shakers, and milestones" in the 20th century's "literary, fine, and media arts--the people, works, movements, and ideas that are at the center of American and world popular and classical culture in our time".
	www.lib.colum.edu /research/subjects/culturalstudies.htm (473 words)

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