Overview
- The book is of interest to instructors, students, and researchers in adult education, cultural studies, women’s/gender studies, and cultural sociology
- This book moves beyond conceptual explorations to present research into popular culture as a vital source of adult learning
- It provides compelling evidence for arguments made about the complexity, politics, and multidimensionality of cultural consumption and adult learning
Part of the book series: Transgressions (TRANS, volume 95)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
At a time when attention often turns to new media, the contributors to this collection continue to find “old” forms of popular culture important and worthy of study. Television and movies – the emphases in this book – reflect aspects of consumers’ lives, and can be powerful vehicles for helping adults see, experience, and inhabit the world in new and different ways.
This volume moves beyond conceptually oriented scholarship, taking a decidedly research-oriented focus. It offers examples of textual and discursive analyses of television shows and films that portray varied contexts of adult learning, and suggests how participants can be brought into adult education research in this area. In so doing, it provides compelling evidence about the complexity, politics, and multidimensionality of adult teaching and learning.
Using a range of television shows and movies as exemplars, chapters relate popular culture to globalization, identity, health and health care, and education. The book will be of great use to instructors, students, and researchers located in adult education, cultural studies, women’s and gender studies, cultural sociology, and other fields who are looking forinnovative ways to explore social life as experienced and imagined."
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Popular Culture as Pedagogy
Book Subtitle: Research in the Field of Adult Education
Editors: Kaela Jubas, Nancy Taber, Tony Brown
Series Title: Transgressions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-274-5
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-274-5Published: 30 October 2015
Series ISSN: 2214-9732
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9740
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 160
Topics: Education, general