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Engaging College Students through Popular Culture Pedagogy

Explore the use of popular culture sources in classes to enhance critical thinking and engagement among college students. This program proposal delves into the benefits, cautions, and samples of integrating popular culture into pedagogy, featuring relevant research and methodologies.

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Engaging College Students through Popular Culture Pedagogy

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  1. “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

  2. Popular Culture • Definition

  3. How I Come At The Use ofPopular Culture Sources • Research • Classes

  4. 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.”

  5. Pedagogy • Uses of Popular Culture: Film

  6. 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”

  7. 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

  8. 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)

  9. Samples of Popular Culture Use • Topical Material: Gender Differences/Oppression

  10. Messages of Power/Gender • Association with animals - primitivism • Blueberries for Sal (1948) by Robert McCloskey

  11. Blueberries for Sal (1948) by Robert McCloskey

  12. Blueberries for Sal (1948) by Robert McCloskey

  13. Messages of Gender Roles/ Appropriate Behavior • Gender • The Wild Birthday Cake (1949) by Lavinia Davis

  14. Messages of Gender Roles/ Appropriate Behavior • Gender • The Wild Birthday Cake (1949) by Lavinia Davis

  15. Messages of Gender Roles/ Appropriate Behavior • Gender • Play With Me (1955) by Marie Hall Ets

  16. Messages of Gender Roles/ Appropriate Behavior • Gender • Play With Me (1955) by Marie Hall Ets

  17. Messages of Gender Roles/ Appropriate Behavior • Gender • Play With Me (1955) by Marie Hall Ets

  18. Samples of Popular Culture Use • Topical Material: Racial Differences/Oppression

  19. Messages of Racial Differences/Gender • Gender • Hawk, I’m Your Brother (1976) by Byrd Baylor

  20. Messages of Racial Differences/Gender • Gender • Hawk, I’m Your Brother (1976) by Byrd Baylor

  21. Messages of Racial Differences/Gender • Gender • Hawk, I’m Your Brother (1976) by Byrd Baylor

  22. Messages of Racial Differences/Gender • Gender • The Girl Who Loved Horses (1978) by Paul Goble

  23. Messages of Racial Differences/Gender • Gender • The Girl Who Loved Horses (1978) by Paul Goble

  24. Messages of Racial Differences/Gender • Gender • The Girl Who Loved Horses (1978) by Paul Goble

  25. Resistance/Agency/Challenges to Authority • Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1949), by Dr. Seuss

  26. Resistance/Agency/Challenges to Authority • Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1949), by Dr. Seuss

  27. Resistance/Agency/Challenges to Authority • Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1949), by Dr. Seuss

  28. Resistance/Agency/Challenges to Authority • Where the Wild Things Are (1963), by Maurice Sendak

  29. Resistance/Agency/Challenges to Authority • Where the Wild Things Are (1963), by Maurice Sendak

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