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Public Pedagogy, Private Lives: Self-Help Books and Adult Learning
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McLean, Scott – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2013
Self-help literature has become an important domain of adult learning in North America. Self-help books offer readers advice on how to take charge of their lives and achieve goals such as prosperity, love, happiness, wellness, and self-actualization. Despite the popularity of self-help books, there has been little research about them from scholars…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Adult Students, Adult Education
The Celluloid Ceiling: Women Academics, Social Expectations, and Narrative in 1940s American Film
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Reynolds, Pauline J. – Gender and Education, 2009
This paper examines the portrayal of women university academics in American films from the 1940s. It applies analytical tools from a critical methodology to access the socio-cultural ideas and values attributed to the female professoriate during what is a period of great change for women in American society. This analysis reveals that the values…
Descriptors: Females, College Faculty, Popular Culture, Film Study
"Us, the Body": Two Women's Uses of Health Texts in Hawai'i
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Cuban, Sondra – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2008
The researcher analysed two women's uses of popular culture texts on the island of Hawai'i. They read these texts in order to learn about, and manage, their health problems. These vernacular texts were different from the institutional texts that were prescribed to them by their doctors, as well as the commercial ones that were in the literacy…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Females, Ethnography, Researchers
The Jossey-Bass Reader on Contemporary Issues in Adult Education
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Merriam, Sharan B., Ed.; Grace, Andre P., Ed. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
With contributions from leading experts in the field, The Jossey-Bass Reader on Contemporary Issues in Adult Education collects in one volume the best previously published literature on the issues and trends affecting adult education today. The volume includes influential pieces from foundational authors in the profession such as Eduard C.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism, Social Justice, Social Class
"The Avengers," Public Pedagogy, and the Development of British Women's Consciousness
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Wright, Robin Redmon – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2007
This chapter explains how the show "The Avengers," a popular British television program with an unusual female lead role, captured the imagination of women viewers in England from 1962 to 1964. After describing the show and then the research project investigating viewers' responses to it, this chapter explores the experience of watching…
Descriptors: Females, Popular Culture, Educational Television, Womens Studies
Critical Pedagogies of Consumption: Living and Learning in the Shadow of the "Shopocalypse"
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Sandlin, Jennifer A., Ed.; McLaren, Peter, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009
Distinguished international scholars from a wide range of disciplines (including curriculum studies, foundations of education, adult education, higher education, and consumer education) come together in this book to explore consumption and its relation to learning, identity development, and education. Readers will learn about a variety of ways in…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Social Systems, Popular Culture, Consumer Education