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Popular Culture, Pedagogy and Teacher Education: International perspectives (Routledge Research in Education)
by Phil Benson Alice ChikThe integration of popular culture into education is a pervasive theme at all educational levels and in all subject areas. Popular Culture, Pedagogy and Teacher Education explores how ‘popular culture’ and ‘education’ come together and interact in research and practice from an interdisciplinary perspective. The international case studies in this edited volume address issues related to: how popular culture ‘teaches’ our students and what they learn from it outside the classroom how popular culture connects education to students’ lives how teachers ‘use’ popular culture in educational settings how far teachers should shape what students learn from engagement with popular culture in school how teacher educators can help teachers integrate popular culture into their teaching Providing vivid accounts of students, teachers and teacher educators, and drawing out the pedagogical implications of their work, this book will appeal to teachers and teacher educators who are searching for practical answers to the questions that the integration of popular culture into education poses for their work.
Popular Culture, New Media and Digital Literacy in Early Childhood
by Jackie MarshThis book offers a range of perspectives on children's multimodal experiences, providing a ground-breaking account of the ways in which children engage with popular culture, media and digital literacy practices from their earliest years. Many young children have extensive experience of film, television, printed media, computer games, mobile phones and the Internet from birth, yet their reaction to media texts is rarely acknowledged in the national curricula of any country. This seminal text focuses on children from birth to eight years, addressing issues such as: * media and identity construction* media literacy practices in the home* the changing nature of literacy in technologically advanced societies* The place of popular and media texts in children's lives and the use of such texts in the curriculum. By exploring children's engagement with popular culture, media and digital texts in the home, community and early years settings, the contributors look at empirical studies from around the world, and draw out vital new theoretical issues relating to children's emergent techno-literacy practices. With an unmatchable team of international experts evaluating topics from text-messaging to the Teletubbies, this book is a long-overdue, fascinating and illuminating read for policy-makers, educational researchers and practitioners, and crosses over to appeal to those in the linguistics field.
Popular Culture in the Classroom: Teaching and Researching Critical Media Literacy (IRA's Literacy Studies Series)
by Donna E. Alvermann Jennifer S. Moon Margaret C. Hagwood Margaret C. HagoodThis book is written for teachers, researchers, and theorists who have grown up in a world radically different from that of the students they teach and study. It considers the possibilities involved in teaching critical media literacy using popular culture, and explore what such teaching might look like in your classroom. Published by International Reading Association
Popular Culture and Representations of Literacy (Routledge Research in Literacy)
by Bronwyn Williams Amy ZengerMovies are filled with scenes of people of all ages, sexes, races, and social classes reading and writing in widely varied contexts and purposes. Yet these scenes go largely unnoticed, despite the fact that these images recreate and reinforce pervasive concepts and perceptions of literacy. This book addresses how everyday literacy practices are represented in popular culture, specifically in mainstream, widely-distributed contemporary movies. If we watch films carefully for who reads and writes, in what settings, and for what social goals, we can see a reflection of the dominant functions and perceptions that shape our conceptions of literacy in our culture. Such perceptions influence public and political debates about literacy instruction, teachers' expectations of what will happen in their classrooms, and student's ideas about what reading and writing should be.
Popular Culture and Critical Pedagogy: Reading, Constructing, Connecting (Pedagogy and Popular Culture #Vol. 2)
by John A. Weaver Toby DaspitThis collection attempts to incorporate cultural studies into the understanding of schooling, not simply addressing how students read themselves as "members" of a distinct culture, but how they, along with teachers and administrators, read popular texts in general. The purpose of this book is to suggest some alternative directions critical pedagogy can take in its critique of popular culture by inviting multiple reading of popular texts into its analysis of schooling and seeing many forms of popular culture as critical pedagogical texts.
Poppy's Project: Independent Reading Green 5 (Reading Champion #113)
by Jackie WalterIn this story, Poppy has a project to do for school. She has some great ideas, but everything keeps going wrong. Luckily, Mum and Dad can help as well.Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.Fantastic, original stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.Independent Reading Green stories are perfect for children aged 4+ who are reading at book band 5 (Green) in classroom reading lessons.
Poppy's Best Paper (Live Oak Media Ereadalong Ser.)
by Susan EaddyFans of Olivia and Lilly will delight in Poppy, a little rabbit with big dreams—and an even bigger personality.More than anything, Poppy wants to be a verrrry famous writer. She's sure Mrs. Rose will pick her paper to read to the whole class! Trouble is, she has tall ambitions but is short on effort, and her jealousy takes over when her best friend's paper is chosen instead. In the end, Poppy discovers that she has to get out of her own way if her big dreams are going to come true. Rosalinde's adorable, expressive illustrations make memorable, quirky Poppy a real star!
Poppy Muddlepup: Book 5 (Magic Animal Friends Early Reader #5)
by Daisy MeadowsThe much-loved series from the creator of Rainbow Magic - abridged for younger readers and illustrated in full colour!Welcome to a magical world where animals talk and play - just like you and me!Best friends Jess and Lily love all animals. But when they follow a mysterious golden cat into Friendship Forest - a place where animals live in tiny cottages and sip dandelion tea at the Toadstool Cafe - their animal friends suddenly become much more magical!Fluffy puppy Poppy Muddlepup needs help! Can the girls rescue Poppy's brother from Grizelda the witch?
The Poppy Lady: Moina Belle Michael And Her Tribute To Veterans
by Barbara Elizabeth WalshThis is the inspiring story behind the Veterans Day red poppy, a symbol that honors the service and sacrifies of our veterans. When American soldiers entered World War I, Moina Belle Michael, a schoolteacher from Georgia, knew she had to act. Some of the soldiers were her students and friends. Almost single-handedly, Moina worked to establish the red poppy as the symbol to honor and remember soldiers. And she devoted the rest of her life to making sure the symbol would last forever and that symbol remains strong today.
Poppleton: An Acorn Book (Poppleton #1)
by Cynthia RylantPick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line, Acorn, aimed at children who are learning to read. With easy-to-read text, a short-story format, plenty of humor, and full-color artwork on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and fluency. Acorn books plant a love of reading and help readers grow!Meet Poppleton -- he's the new pig in town! He makes friends with his new neighbor, Cherry Sue. He goes to the library every Monday to read adventure stories. And he helps his friend Fillmore take his medicine when he is sick. This Acorn edition contains brand-new content, including story prompts and how-to-draw pages!
Popper's Approach to Education: A Cornerstone of Teaching and Learning (Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education #38)
by Stephanie ChitpinChallenging the theory of induction in teacher education, this book proposes a knowledge-building framework based on the critical rationalism of philosopher of science, Karl Popper. The Objective Knowledge Growth Framework developed in this book is designed to be an effective critical analysis framework for empowering teachers and schools to build and share professional knowledge. This book is essential reading for educational scholars, researchers, professionals, policymakers, and all those interested in exploring the application of Popperian philosophy to the field of education and re-envisioning educational practice.
Popper Cb: Popper (Modern Masters Ser.)
by Brian MageeFirst published in 1974. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Popcorn Bob 3: In America
by Maranke RinckEllis, Dante, and Popcorn Bob are on an important top-secret mission in America. (Ellis's dads are there too. But they don't know about the mission.)When Popcorn Bob last escaped the clutches of Coraline Corn (the evil owner of Popcorn & Co.), she said that there are more live popcorn kernels in America – just like Bob!Bob can't wait to meet his family. But when he finds them, they're trapped in a chicken coop on the Popcorn & Co. grounds, living at the mercy of Coraline Corn, and whatever experiments she wants to run on them. Bob, Ellis, and Dante must team up once again to defeat Coraline Corn and free Bob's newfound family.The third installment to this chapter book series brings back all the zaniness that readers know and love, plus a new cross-continental adventure, and lots more friends.
Popcorn Bob: The Popcorn Spy (Popcorn Bob Ser. #2)
by Maranke RinckEllis is now best friends with a grumpy, talking popcorn kernel. Yes, REALLY!Together, they're secretly handing out popcorn to Ellis's classmates (since her school is now officially a "Healthy School"—blech), and everything is great. Bob is even learning how to control his hanger. (Kind of.) But Ellis and Bob are in danger—visitors from the possibly nefarious Popcorn & Co. are following them, and it's clear they're after Bob!Will Ellis be able to keep Bob out of their clutches?
Popcorn Bob
by Maranke Rinck Martijn van der LindenEllis loves popcorn. Who doesn't?But one day her school goes on a healthy eating campaign and her dads decide to follow suit, banning all snack foods from their house, INCLUDING POPCORN. Unfair. Ellis has got to get around that edict, so one night she pops a bag of popcorn out back in the garage...and she's met with more than just her favorite salty snack. One kernel refuses to pop, and soon it's sprouted a face, arms, and legs! He introduces himself as Popcorn Bob, and he is NOT in a good mood. (Ever, really.) He's absolutely ravenous, and no amount of food keeps him from being hangry. Bob causes no end of chaos for Ellis, and she decides to rid herself of him once and for all, except...she actually starts to like him.A chapter book for all ages, Popcorn Bob is a laugh-out-loud story about the power of friendship, and a perfect bowl of popcorn.
Pop-Up Paper Projects: Step-by-step paper engineering for all ages
by Paul JohnsonThe techniques of creating pop-up forms are demonstrated in a series of practical lessons. The book also suggests ways in which pop-up forms can be used to enrich the study of English and art, and contains illustrations of childrens work.
Pop the Bronze Balloon (The Crimson Five #3)
by Jackie YeagerThe Crimson Five make their International Debut! Kia Krumpet and her team of young inventors embark on the Swirl and Spark Creativity Tour, the highest level of the Piedmont Challenge. To solidify their spots at the Piedmont Inventor's Prep School once and for all, they're challenged to create a final life-changing invention with Team France and Team Switzerland. Everything changes when the Crimson Five discover that someone else is pulling the strings in the competition—and a hidden invention with a secret. In order to save Piedmont, and the futures of all kids with big dreams around the world, Kia, Ander, Mare, Jax, and Jillian must find a way to unlock the invention and lead a new connected team—the ultimate test of imagination and teamwork. The Crimson Five are traveling the globe. Because a dream is born to become a dream come true.
Pop Song Piracy: Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929
by Barry KernfeldThe music industry's ongoing battle against digital piracy is just the latest skirmish in a long conflict over who has the right to distribute music. Starting with music publishers' efforts to stamp out bootleg compilations of lyric sheets in 1929, Barry Kernfeld's Pop Song Piracy details nearly a century of disobedient music distribution from song sheets to MP3s. In the 1940s and '50s, Kernfeld reveals, song sheets were succeeded by fake books, unofficial volumes of melodies and lyrics for popular songs that were a key tool for musicians. Music publishers attempted to wipe out fake books, but after their efforts proved unsuccessful they published their own. Pop Song Piracy shows that this pattern of disobedience, prohibition, and assimilation recurred in each conflict over unauthorized music distribution, from European pirate radio stations to bootlegged live shows. Beneath this pattern, Kernfeld argues, there exists a complex give and take between distribution methods that merely copy existing songs (such as counterfeit CDs) and ones that transform songs into new products (such as file sharing). Ultimately, he contends, it was the music industry's persistent lagging behind in creating innovative products that led to the very piracy it sought to eliminate.
Pop Painting
by Camilla D'ErricoA unique behind-the-scenes guide to the painting process of one of the most popular artists working in the growing, underground art scene of Pop Surrealism.Painting superstar Camilla d'Errico opens up her studio and offers readers an insider scoop on the tools, techniques, and inspirations she draws from to create stunningly beautiful, otherworldly works of art. Pop Surrealism, with its unique blend of high art and popular culture, has been a growing force in the art world for years. Artists working in Pop Surrealism use elements of manga, cartoons, movies, and more to produce paintings that have been displayed in galleries and purchased by collectors around the globe. In addition to her work in manga and as the author of the best-selling Pop Manga, d'Errico is also one of the Pop Surrealism movement's biggest names. From high-end art galleries to comic book conventions, d'Errico's works draw legions of fans, collectors, and admirers. With Pop Painting, fans and aspiring painters get an up-close look at the step-by-step processes she employs to transform oil and acrylic paints into unforgettable images of her ethereal and beautiful characters. This one-of-a-kind look at a painter at the top of her field reveals all the materials and methods readers need to join the ranks of the Pop Surrealism movement.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Pop Manga Drawing: 30 Step-by-Step Lessons for Pencil Drawing in the Pop Surrealism Style
by Camilla d'ErricoAn easy-to-follow, step-by-step manga drawing instruction book from fan favorite manga artist and painter Camilla d'Errico, featuring 30 lessons on illustrating cute, cool, and quirky characters in the Pop Surrealist style with pencils.With wildly popular appearances at Comic Cons and her paintings displayed in art galleries around the world, Camilla d'Errico has established herself as a go-to resource for manga-influenced art. Following in the footsteps of her past art instruction books Pop Manga and Pop Painting, Pop Manga Drawing provides the most direct and accessible lessons yet for rendering characters in her signature Pop Surrealist style. Written in the fun and encouraging voice that fans have come to expect, Pop Manga Drawing takes you step-by-step through lessons on drawing with graphite and mechanical pencils, along with insights on enhancing pieces with other mediums (including acrylics, markers, and colored pencils). It also provides tips and expert advice on drawing specific elements, including hair, eyes, and animals, that can take your manga art to the next level. Pop Manga Drawing grants one-of-a-kind access to the basic building blocks of artistic expression, giving you the tools you need to create your own pop manga masterpieces.
Pop Manga: How to Draw the Coolest, Cutest Characters, Animals, Mascots, and More
by Stephen W. Martin Camilla D'ErricoRenowned manga artist and comics creator Camilla D'Errico's beginner's guide to drawing her signature Japanese-style characters.From comics to video games to contemporary fine art, the beautiful, wide-eyed-girl look of shoujo manga has infiltrated pop culture, and no artist's work today better exemplifies this trend than Camilla D'Errico's. In her first instructional guide, D'Errico reveals techniques for creating her emotive yet playful manga characters, with lessons on drawing basic body construction, capturing action, and creating animals, chibis, and mascots. Plus, she gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at her character design process, pointers on creating their own comics, and prompts for finishing her drawings. Pop Manga is both a celebration of creativity and an indespensible guide that is sure to appeal to manga diehards and aspiring artists alike.
Pop Culture in Language Education: Theory, Research, Practice (Routledge Research in Language Education)
by Valentin WernerPop Culture in Language Education provides comprehensive insight on how studies of pop culture can inform language teaching and learning. The volume offers a state-of-the-art overview of empirically informed, cutting-edge research that tackles both theoretical concerns and practical implications. The book focuses on how a diverse array of pop culture artifacts such as pop and rap music, movies and TV series, comics and cartoons, fan fiction, and video games can be exploited for the development of language skills. It establishes the study of pop culture and its language as a serious subfield within language education and applied linguistics and explores how studies of pop culture, its language, and its non-linguistic affordances can inform language education at various levels of proficiency and with various learner populations. Presenting a broad range of quantitative and qualitative research approaches including case studies on how pop culture has been used successfully in language education in and beyond the classroom, this book will be of great interest for academics, researchers, and students in the field of language education, applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics, as well as for language teachers and materials developers.
Pop Culture and Power: Teaching Media Literacy for Social Justice
by Dawn H. Currie Deirdre M. KellyLiteracy education has historically characterized mass media as manipulative towards young people who, as a result, are in need of close-reading "skills." By contrast, Pop Culture and Power treats literacy as a dynamic practice, shaped by its social and cultural context. It develops a framework to analysze power in its various manifestations, arguing that power works through popular culture, not as everyday media. Pop Culture and Power thus explores media engagement as an opportunity to promote social change. Seeing Deeming pop culture as a teaching n opportunity rather than as a threat, Dawn H. Currie and Deirdre M. Kelly worked with K-12 educators to investigate how pop culture can support teaching for social justice. Currie and Kelly began the research for this project with a teacher education seminar in media analysis where participants designed classroom activities using board games, popular film, music videos, and advertisements. These activities were later piloted in participants’ classrooms, enabling the authors to identify and address practical issues encountered by student learners. Case studies describe the design, implementation, and retrospective assessment of activities engaging learners in media analysis and production. Following the case studies, the authors consider how their approach can foster ethical practices when engaging in the digital environment. Pop Culture and Power offers theoretically -informed yet practical tools that can help educators prepare youth for engagement in our increasingly complex world of mediated meaning making.
Pop Art
by Will GompertzUn Gompertz muy Gompertz. Un texto sobre los precursores del Pop Art y las revolucionarias ideas que dieron pie al movimiento. En este texto, incluido en el exitoso libro ¿Qué estás mirando? 150 años de arte moderno en un abrir y cerrar de ojos, el autor desgrana las obras que marcaron el inicio y posteriormente la consagración del Pop Art, así como la trayectoria de sus autores. Gompertz nos sitúa en diferentes puntos estratégicos del mapa mundial para trazar las vidas de los precursores del movimiento: Paolozzi, Jasper Jones, Robert Rauschenberg, Warhol, Lichtenstein o Richard Hamilton —por mencionar algunos—; y relata con una prosa absorbente el minuto exacto en el que dieron a luz a sus obras más emblemáticas. Esta corriente artística, considerada por algunos como arte «fácil» para una masa pueril, en el fondo no defendía otra cosa que la democratización de la cultura y reivindicaba que no existía un arte elevado, sino que había valor en las imágenes que formaban parte del mundo cotidiano (aunque estas fueran el resultado impersonal de la producción en cadena). Así, una botella de Coca-Cola se elevaba al nivel de una escultura de Bernini. Siguiendo esta tesis, los artistas del Pop Art descontextualizaron los objetos de la sociedad de consumo para romper mediante la ironía y el color con la corriente artística imperante: el expresionismo abstracto. Con un estilo narrativo propio de la literatura, el autor constata su maestría como uno de los mayores expertos en arte moderno y contagia su entusiasmo a lo largo de estas páginas. Una pieza clave para entender que el Pop Art siempre ha estado entre nosotros, pero necesitábamos a los artistas para descubrirlo. «Gompertz ha escrito un enérgico y completo recorrido por el arte moderno».The Independent Sobre el autor se dijo:«A Gompertz lo de aburrir no se le da nada bien».The Times «Will Gompertz es el mejor profesor que haya tenido jamás».The Guardian «Gompertz ha escrito un enérgico y completo recorrido por el arte moderno».The Independent «Will Gompertz un tipo singular. Rápido como la sangre. Y de algún modo un defensor de la claridad en un territorio de opacidades. Entra en faena desde un libro lúcido que tiene algo de síntesis mental de lo complejo. Una exploración que desacraliza con audacia e ironía tanto el cuello duro de la crítica de arte, a la vez que hace su propia crítica desde la orilla de la claridad».Antonio Lucas, El Mundo «Es tan provocador, irreverente, irónico, divertido y políticamente incorrecto como muchos de los artistas de los que habla. Gompertz da un buen repaso (en todos los sentidos) al arte moderno y contemporáneo. Su visión del mundo del arte es inteligente, salpimentada con buenas dosis de humor».Nati Pulido, ABC «Tanta contundencia en las opiniones proviene de Will Gompertz, director de arte de la BBC y considerado una autoridad mundial en el arte moderno y contemporáneo. [...] En realidad, el libro requiere algo más que un simple pestañeo. Se lee más bien como un completo y ameno manual de 472 páginas».Ángeles García, El País «Para salvar la brecha que separa a muchos visitantes de los objetos que contemplan, Gompertz ha escrito precisamente ¿Qué estás mirando?, un ameno recorrido por la creación moderna para que la comprenda todo el mundo».Javier Ors, La Razón
Pop Art: A Colourful History
by Alastair SookePop Art by the BBC's Alastair Sooke - an essential but snappy new guide to our favourite art movementPop Art is the most important 20th-century art movement. It brought Modernism to the masses, making art sexy and fun with coke cans and comics. Today, in our age of selfies and social networking, we are still living in a world defined by Pop.Full of brand new interviews and research, Sooke describes the great works by Warhol, Lichtenstein and other key figures, but also re-examines the movement for the 21st century and asks if it is still art? He reveals a global story, tracing Pop's surprising origins in 19th-century Paris to uncovering the forgotten female artists of the 1960s."A clear and lively outline of the history of pop art ... a pleasure to read" - Sunday Times