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  • The Female Teacher on Television

    Shifting Stereotypes on the Small Screen

    by Dr. Elizabeth Currin, Dr. Pierrette Dagg, Dr. Robert Dahlgren, Leah Day, Dr. Mary Dalton, Jake Gates, Dr. Adam Grunzke, Andrew L. Grunzke, Rebecca Z. Grunzke, Edward Janak1, Dr. Melanie Janzen2, Cathy Leogrande3, Christie Petersen4, Dr. Patrick A. Ryan5, Ludovic A. Sourdot6, Dr. Abigail Stebbins7, Dr. Stephanie Schroeder8, Dr. Melissa Stanley9 ...
    Series series Education and Popular Culture
    This edited volume examines the ways in which the representation of female teachers on television has developed from the advent of the medium up to the present day. Despite the widely feminized nature of the teaching profession, the first depictions of female teachers on television did not occur until over a century later. Contributors analyze a variety of programs spanning time periods, audiences ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Teaching Popular Culture in the Humanities Classroom

    by Ashley Archiopoli, Katherine Hampsten, Katherine Hampsten, Elizabeth Fish Hatfield, Anthony Ramirez, James M. Okapal, Melissa Eriko Poulsen, Peter Burkholder0, Devan Charles Lindey1, John F. Lyons2, Nick J. Sciullo3, Sabrina Voelz4, Steven Rodriguez Rodriguez Jr.7 ...
    Series series Education and Popular Culture
    From the television we watch and the films we consume to the experience of user-generated content, this volume explores various forms of popular culture as teaching tools. Teaching popular culture well hinges on the application, not the mere inclusion of popular culture artifacts. It is the nuance of praxis where theory meets practice, the artful marriage of academic knowledge with popular culture ... Read more

    $85.09 USD

  • Kevin Costner, America's Teacher

    by Edward Janak, Ludovic A. Sourdot, Jerry Ausburn, Mike Borowczak, Andrea C. Burrows, Michelle Chamberlin, William Gombash, Andrew Grunzke, Bradley W. Hart0, Dennis R. Hart1, Tatiana Konrad2, Cathy Leogrande3, Chandra A. Maldonado4, Ashley A. Mattheis5, Pawel Pyrka6, Stefan Rabitsch7 ...
    Series series Education and Popular Culture
    Kevin Costner: America's Teacher examines the role of Costner in educational settings domestically and abroad. Costner's career over the past 35 years has seen ups and downs: his movies grossed 2 billion dollars in ticket sales worldwide and he has he won/been nominated for several Academy Awards but he also experienced critical and box office failures. Through the films in his oeuvre, Costner has ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • A Brief History of Schooling in the United States

    From Pre-Colonial Times to the Present

    by Edward Janak ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents a sweeping overview of the historical and philosophical foundations of schooling in the United States. Beginning with education among the indigenous peoples of the Americas and going on to explore European models of schooling brought into the United States by European colonists, the author carefully traces the arc of educational reform through major episodes of the nation’s ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • How Television Shapes Our Worldview

    Media Representations of Social Trends and Change

    by Deborah A. Macey, Kathleen M. Ryan, Noah J. Springer, Stylés I. Akira, Lane Clegg, Katherine A. Foss, Charity Fox, Carrie Packwood Freeman0, Jennifer Ellen Good1, Robert D. Gratz2, Chandler Harris3, Tim Karis4, Katherine J. Lehman5, Lauren Lemley6, Joy Chavez Mapaye7, Gretta Moody8, Ariadne Alejandra Gonzalez9, Larry Ossei-Mensah0, Leighton C. Peterson1, Ji Yoon Ru2, Danielle E. Williams3, Glenn G. Sparks4, Jack A. Barwind5, Philip J. Salem6, Michelle Napierski-Prancl7, Edward Janak8, Cindy Conaway9, Susan H. Sarapin0, Margaret Tally1 ...
    Over the last half of the twentieth century, television has become the predominant medium through which the public accesses information about the world. Through the news, situation comedies, police dramas, and commercials, we learn about the world around us, and our role within it. These genres, narratives, and cultural forms are not simply entertainment, but powerful socializing agents that show ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Educating through Popular Culture

    You're Not Cool Just Because You Teach with Comics

    by Maha Al-Saati, Pearl Chaozon Bauer, Emily L. Brandon, Melissa Chapman, Paul A. Crutcher, Autumn M. Dodge, Tonia A. Dousay, Haley M. G. Ford, Jacob Hardesty, Richard Hartsell, Sarah Hunt-Barron, Cadey Korson, Weronika Kusek, Katie Lopez, Kimberley McMahon-Coleman, Tammy L. Mielke, Josh Thompson, Chad William Timm, Meredith J. Tolson, Jillian L. Wenburg, Kenya Wolff, Marc Wolterbeek, Andrew L. Grunzke, Richard Hughes, Meghan Hawkins ...
    This edited volume serves as a place for teachers and scholars to begin seeking ways in which popular culture has been effectively tapped for research and teaching purposes around the country. The contents of the book came together in a way that allowed for a detailed examination of teaching with popular culture on many levels. The first part allows teachers in PreK-12 schools the opportunity to ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • The Pedagogy of Pop

    Theoretical and Practical Strategies for Success

    by Yvette Benavides, Seth Besteman, Carrie Brockheim, Colleen Coughlin, Jennifer Culver, Sheila Delony, Mikee Delony, Charity Dishon-Fischer, Brian Duchaney, Jennifer Edelman, Richard Ellefritz, Jennifer Moyer Geiger, Mike Hall, Glinda Fountain Hall, Sylvia Mac, Amy Rakowsky Neeman, David D. Newman, Michelle Parke, Julie Irene Prieto, Bob Reese, Cindy Roberts, Forrest Roth, Ludovic A. Sourdot, Fred Waweru ...
    Media competes with public schools in terms of student engagement and time. However, the two needn't be mutually exclusive. The Pedagogy of Pop: Theoretical and Practical Strategies for Success discusses a variety of strategies and approaches for using social and mass media as tools through which teachers might improve schooling.While there is a vast body of literature in this field, editors ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

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    What Reality TV Says About Us

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    Named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 by EsquireA sociological study of reality TV that explores its rise as a culture-dominating medium—and what the genre reveals about our attitudes toward race, gender, class, and sexualityWhat do we see when we watch reality television?In True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us, the sociologist and TV-lover Danielle J. Lindemann takes a long, hard look in the ... Read more

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  • Our History Has Always Been Contraband

    In Defense of Black Studies

    Edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ...
    "The centuries-long attack on Black history represents a strike against our very worth, brilliance, and value. We’re ready to fight back. And when we fight, we win." —Colin KaepernickSince its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it. Our History Has Always Been Contraband was born out of an ... Read more

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  • The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle

    Final Girls and a New Hollywood Formula

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    Many critics and fans refer to the 1990s as the decade that horror forgot, with few notable entries in the genre. Yet horror went mainstream in the '90s by speaking to the anxieties of American youth during one of the country's most prosperous eras.No longer were films made on low budgets and dependent on devotees for success. Horror found its way onto magazine covers, fashion ads and CD ... Read more

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  • The Black Image in the White Mind

    Media and Race in America

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