Popular Culture And Literacy

Pop culture has been seen in the past to be a main ingredient in making our country’s I.Q. drop, or well, that the overall population is going to become dumber because of its rise. However, Malcolm Gladwell has felt differently, and decided to produce an article on how pop culture has effected the smarts of our country. In Malcolm Gladwell’s article “Brain Candy”, Gladwell effectively uses rhetorical appeals to prove his argument.

Learning about pop culture truly frightened me when I saw the book we were utilizing at the beginning of the semester. Having been without television for more than 10 years now, I suspected I wouldn’t know much. Being a single parent amid this time gave me an opportunity to see this present era progress through the technological advances of our time, and interestingly, my age placed me in pop culture arena’s that the more youthful era doesn’t even think about. Our book, “Signs of Life in the USA” was splendid at addressing such a variety of products, movies, television, spaces, semiotic multiculturalism, alongside the gender and sexual societal rational to name a few. The transition back to school after 40+ years has given me some shock in the amount of openness and evaluation of actually any subject, religion to politics. Since these are places I refrain to go into conversation with others on the planet, to have my opportunity of opinions gives me a protective feeling with the

Central Idea: The society we live in today blames popular culture for destroying the lives of most young ones. Critics come up with conclusions that pop culture is the cause of educational failure. But they fail to look at the real reasons why we have a lot of young ones who cannot graduate from high school or even afford a quality education. My aim is to convince my audience that there is a lot going on in our society other than pop culture when it comes to education and learning.

In an article published for the National Association for Music Education, titled “Popular Culture and Video Games as Tools for Music Learning,” written by Adam Reyher. Focuses primarily on a video game called Rhythm Heaven Fever, Reyher discusses how the use of incorporating technology in the classroom by using video games will appeal to children more than traditional methods. He mentions how appealing to children through the type of music they enjoy listening to as well as using things that will keep their attention will unknowingly help them learn more.

Welcome to Consumerism, You are free to stay here, but you can’t step out: Analysis of the effects of consumer culture on diverse subsets of the population. 2: Thesis statement In today’s modern society there is a major divide between cultural and racial subsets in America. The film The Terminal explores this theme, with each major character representing a subset of the US population that is divided by economic, gender, racial or social classes. Thus the movie implies that citizenship to a specific country is practically irrelevant when compared to things that are actually universal.

Aesthetic surgeries are surgeries in which the main point is to improve one’s appearance. Most of the general public see it as an excuse to get attention. Many people get them and not just famous people. Those who do, do it to feel more confident. Plastic surgeries should be seen more positively and not as an act of vanity because it boosts people’s confidence levels.

Mid-America Christian University has become my home in the four short months I have been here. It was a scary and tough decision for me to attend MACU but I wouldn’t want it any other way. Critical thought and popular culture was a required course to take and to be honest, I thought it was going to be a super boring class. But, it taught me a lot about myself and made me examine my calling in life a little deeper than before. In turn, I thoroughly enjoyed this course.

The enigma of the Krabby Patty secret formula can flee the mind of a Palestinian visitor. Palestine is home to the world’s first Krusty Krab. The restaurant replicates the well known food establishment created in Bikini Bottom. Instead of consuming the traditional middle eastern kufta patty made with beef, onion, jalapeno, and lamb, tourists have the opportunity to indulge on the American invented Krabby Patty. With new technological advancements created in the past century, it has become far less difficult for America to ship its culture around the world, and push for it to be adopted. The export of American popular culture has unfavorably affected the world, and America itself in a highly significant manner. A powerful few distribute the

What is now considered as cultural appropriation is when people see or hear about someone else’s culture or way of life and use it to benefit themselves, mainly for monetary gain or popularity, without a care as to it’s true meaning or purpose. During the minstrelsy era, cultural appropriation came into play when it was used to get a few laughs by making fun of their differences. This led to minstrelsy being heavily misappropriated as a way for white supremacists to prove that they should remain dominant over blacks. Fortunately, nowadays minstrelsy and blackface are looked down upon and is not being used in popular entertainment today. The use of another’s culture for personal gain does still happen, not always in a negative manner as minstrelsy,

Popular culture was, and perhaps still is, seen as a touchy and risky topic that should not be experimented in by many educational institutions. Callahan and Low (2004) point out that popular culture is looked upon unfavorably due to its fluid nature and habit of putting teachers in zones outside their expertise and familiarity (p.52). Additionally, as described by Gutiérrez (2011) popular culture and the fandoms that inevitably followed were believed to create a single path by which the individual merely payed tribute to a source material without having ever gained or learned anything in return (p.227). Furthermore, Hull and Stornaiuolo (2010) assert that formal, or standardized, schooling is skeptical of the potential educational value while magnifying the potential risks of popular culture and social media (p 85), perhaps prompting instructors to stick to traditional techniques in lieu of potential dangers, to both students and their own job security. Why then, despite the potentially debilitating aspects of popular culture in the classroom, do some teachers still choose to incorporate them? Admittedly, I observed very few instances of pop culture implementation during my first field experience, however those that did incorporate popular culture did so naturally, enthusiastically, and so masterfully that it was without a doubt beneficial when compared to classes that were kept material “dry” and by the books. Therefore, the real question becomes: How do teachers

What pops into your mind first when you think of popular culture in today’s day and age? The latest dirt on celebrities or the latest iPhone release? The latest controversial issue or the latest iTunes hit? Regardless, pop culture encompasses all four of these concepts and many more, which consume the world we live in each and every day. Think about education. At first thought, your mind may not make the connection between the newest Taylor Swift song and the highest ACT score, but the linkage between the two becomes undeniable when you dive deeper. Ponder this: each day millions of kids walk into school buildings across the United States, each of them glued to a little slice of pop culture, a.k.a. their phone. And each day these millions

Popular culture is a term that holds various meanings depending on where it 's being defined and the context of its use. It is usually recognized as the language or people’s culture that prevails in a society at a point in time. As social researcher Brummett explains in his book “Rhetorical Dimensions of Popular Culture”, pop culture reflects the characteristics of social life, where the publicly are most actively involved. Popular culture is known as the ‘culture of the people’. This culture is determined by the interactions between people within their daily activities, for instance, dressing styles, use of language, greeting rituals and the ways that people behave in public, etc. are all examples of popular culture. Popular culture is also diverted by the mass media (Abbott and Sapsford, 1987).

The study of popular culture is useful in many ways. To be more specific, this course has reached its three intended main ideas: what it means to be American, how to be more consumption-conscious, and how to apply these studies in our own lives. Jim Cullen puts this in a less specific sense, arguing that the study of popular culture can “afford valuable clues – about collective fears, hopes, and debates” (Cullen, The Art of Democracy, 2). We use these clues to understand the world around us, as well as why we do what we do as Americans and as humans. I will be touching on themes that relate to this quotation by Cullen, escapism, exploitation, and globalization, as well as how these themes relate to the course goals.

When we understand the importance of popular education we are able to realize that this form of education helps to raise critical consciousness and freedom by co-learning in order to achieve social transformation. Taking a class on popular education has allowed for me to recognize that there are different ways and practices in which we can learn that move away from the dominant educational system to better reflect our social identities. After developing the knowledge and skills on what popular education is and how we do popular education, my classmates and myself were able to put these skills into practice and collaborate on a workshop. Once we decided on an issue that we wanted to focus our workshop on such as food literacy, we worked together to design and facilitate this workshop for the class in order to gain an opportunity on the processes of popular education by also experiencing the challenges as well. For the purpose of this paper, I will be reflecting on putting popular education into practice by using my workshop as a framework to understand both the learning processes as well as the challenges that I faced. In addition, I will also reflect on the changes I would make moving forward in order to continue to develop my popular education skills in the future. Throughout this reflection I will focus on aspects such as the banking model, equity, participation, story telling, community and so forth. The course readings will also be applied In order to further explore

Throughout the world, popular culture has made an impact, especially on especially to people living throughout the world. The impact of popular culture has several benefits on both individuals and society. Several of the benefits that popular culture has on society are entertaining, informing, and interactions.