Pop culture and pedagogy: taking up school documentaries in teacher education

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  • March 21, 2019
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  • Adams, Reid L.
    • Affiliation: School of Education
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  • In the forward to Reading Television, Fiske and Hartley write that television programs constitute a gigantic empirical archive of human sense-making, there for the taking, twenty-four/seven. In addition, this gigantic empirical archive also includes fiction films, video games, documentary films, commercials, news media, radio, Internet, and many other forms of mass-produced visual media found in popular culture. In this dissertation I explore a particular piece of this contemporary archive. I suggest pedagogical projects based on a cultural studies analysis of school docs, a particular genre of documentary films that I have defined and catalogued. This genre includes such documentary films as: Hoop Dreams (1994), Mad Hot Ballroom (2004), OT: Our Town (2002), Stupid in America (2006), Waiting for Superman (2010), and The War on Kids (2009). The pedagogical projects that I conceptualize are intended to explore issues and topics relevant to teacher education coursework; specifically issues and topics associated with the teaching of Social Foundations of Education. In this dissertation I: (1) discuss how I have become interested in the intersection of popular culture and teacher education; (2) define and discuss the school docs genre; (3) discuss how documentary films and fiction films have been taken up pedagogically by academics; (4) describe the context for which the projects in this dissertation have been conceptualized; (5) discuss a theoretical framework for analyzing school docs; (6) Describe the processes and procedures for collecting and analyzing school docs; and (7) suggest pedagogical projects based on my analysis of selected school docs.
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  • "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Education."
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  • Chapel Hill, NC
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  • March 18, 2013

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