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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

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Popular Culture Definition

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How I Come At The Use of Popular Culture Sources Research Classes

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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.

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Pedagogy Uses of Popular Culture: Film

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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

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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

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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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Messages of Racial Differences/Gender Gender Hawk, Im Your Brother (1976) by Byrd Baylor

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Messages of Racial Differences/Gender Gender Hawk, Im Your Brother (1976) by Byrd Baylor

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Messages of Racial Differences/Gender Gender Hawk, Im Your Brother (1976) by Byrd Baylor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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