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Direct linkAnu Lainio – Critical Studies in Education, 2024
This article explores the normative representations of higher education students in seven films and television series from four European countries. Drawing on the concept of the 'independent learner' as an 'ideal construction', I demonstrate how these texts offer complex and at times paradoxical representations of who gets positioned as the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Films, Television, Independent Study
Download full textBarsch, Sebastian; Mathis, Christian – History Education Research Journal, 2020
In 2018, the toy manufacturer Playmobil launched a 'History Class' as an addition to its 'Furnished School Building'. The materiality of this toy, and the selection of teaching media represented in coloured plastic (a blackboard with timeline, magnifying glass, parchment roll, stone axe, posters and other sources), convey an idea of history…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toys, Popular Culture, Cultural Influences
Hofmann, Judith – Global Studies of Childhood, 2018
This article aims at taking a look at a genre that is popular with both children and adults, yet mostly neglected in curricula: animated films. As a study conducted in a German secondary school demonstrated, the potential of this genre for Teaching English as a Foreign Language lies mostly in its strong visual language as well as its connection to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Animation, Films, Second Language Instruction
Priem, Karin; Mayer, Christine – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2017
Focusing on Lichtwark's concept of museology, this article shows what role he envisaged for art in public life at a time when the rise of mass consumption and popular culture created new lifestyles. Lichtwark's concept of artistic and aesthetic education did not only extend to museums and classrooms but also to dilettantism as a basis for…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Museums, Art Appreciation, Cultural Education
Sosulski, Michael J. – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2013
This article explores the possibilities for effecting Transformative Learning in students of German language and culture through the use of popular music videos, in both the target and the students' own languages. Transformative Learning, a term that has differing valences in numerous academic disciplines, is employed here in its social-scientific…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Popular Culture, German, Critical Viewing
Kahnke, Corinna; Stehle, Maria – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2011
In North American universities, pop culture increasingly appears in the German Studies classroom to "spice up" the curriculum. But what is conveyed and taught and how is it inserted into the curriculum and into the US cultural context? This article explores three examples of popular culture in the German Studies classroom:…
Descriptors: Universities, Popular Culture, Foreign Countries, Cultural Context
Rundell, Richard – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2008
Popular music is a "lingua franca" for young people. The songs of German "Liedermacher" lend themselves to classroom uses. "Liedermacher" are cultural commentators who entertain and edify with their songs. Focusing on social and political aspects of postwar Germany, "Liedermacher" songs have been a…
Descriptors: Music, Access to Information, Foreign Countries, Singing
