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Hunt, Geoffrey; Moloney, Molly; Evans, Kristin – Youth & Society, 2011
This article analyzes the construction of ethnic identity in the narratives of 100 young Asian Americans in a dance club/rave scene. Authors examine how illicit drug use and other consuming practices shape their understanding of Asian American identities, finding three distinct patterns. The first presents a disjuncture between Asian American…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Drug Abuse, Youth, Asian Americans
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Purcell, John – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2009
Over the last year, the author's students have become very interested in popular culture from Korea and Japan. In particular, the class liked the films of Hayao Miyazaki, an Oscar-winning director who is considered one of the foremost anime filmmakers. In this article, the author came to an idea while he and the first-grade class were discussing…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Asian Culture, Sculpture, Studio Art
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Turner, K. C. Nat; Hayes, Nini, Visaya; Way, Kate – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2013
This article features key findings from a study that highlights the transformative impact of a pedagogical approach that employs Critical Multimodal Hip Hop Production (CMHHP). The study took place in an extended day program in a northern California public middle school among a group of 30, urban, African American, Chicano/a/Latino/a, and Asian…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Popular Culture, Music, Teaching Methods
Watson, Renee – Rethinking Schools, 2010
As a teaching artist in public schools, the author is paired with classroom teachers to teach poetry and to give students an opportunity to experience their academic curriculum through the arts. At the beginning of the school year, she gave her students the on-going, yearlong assignment to watch the news, to pay attention. Knowing many of them…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Poetry
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Nicol, Donna J. – Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 2012
Black Women in America is an upper-division elective course for students majoring in African American or women's studies at California State University Fullerton (CSUF). The author has taught this course at CSUF at least once a year since 2002 and have changed the course readings, lectures, and assignments on a regular basis. In April 2007,…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Elective Courses, Black Studies
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Sealey-Ruiz, Yolanda – Journal of Negro Education, 2011
This article draws from a qualitative case study of 22 teachers of African American males who participated in a screening event of the documentary Beyond the Bricks as part of a community engagement project in three cities: New Orleans, New York, and Oakland Through the lenses of critical race theory and the Matrix Achievement Paradigms typology,…
Descriptors: African American Students, Urban Schools, Academic Achievement, Males
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Lee, Jooyoung – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2009
How do individuals escape embarrassing moments in interaction? Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork, in-depth interviews, and video recordings of weekly street corner ciphers (impromptu rap sessions), this paper expands Goffman's theory of defensive and protective face-work. The findings reveal formulaic and indirect dimensions of face-work. First,…
Descriptors: Interaction, Popular Culture, Music, Interpersonal Relationship
Young, Jeffrey R. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
This article takes a look at the rising popularity of professors as the latest YouTube stars. The popularity of their appearances on YouTube and other video-sharing sites is making it possible for classrooms to be opened up and making teaching--which once took place behind closed doors--a more public art. Web video has generated a new form of…
Descriptors: Colleges, Foreign Countries, Peer Acceptance, Faculty
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Curwen, Margie Sauceda – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2011
This study explored how multi-generational, middle-class, fifth-graders from Latino families responded to classroom discussions of social issues--particularly discrimination--and draws upon sociocultural views of culture, educational theory, and sociological perspectives of immigration to provide insight into the learning experiences of one group…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Hispanic American Students, Racial Bias, Racial Discrimination
Boutelle, Marsha – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2008
In an era where some parents seem unwilling or unable to draw the "clothes" line with their children, where pop culture influences kids' clothing choices as never before, and school safety--including gang violence--is at the top of everyone's minds, school uniforms and dress codes can play a significant role. What that role should be,…
Descriptors: School Policy, Educational Environment, Popular Culture, School Safety
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Beck, Bernard – Multicultural Perspectives, 2006
Each of the world's major cities is known in the movie world as the exemplar of a specific mood, atmosphere, or spirit and the natural setting for particular kinds of movie stories. Paris, London, New York, and Chicago have their respective types of picture. Los Angeles has such an urban personality in imagination. Those distinctive story lines…
Descriptors: Drama, Altruism, Films, Popular Culture
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Turner, K. C. Nat – Educational Forum, 2012
This study draws on ethnographic data from a year-long multimodal media production (MMP) course and the experience of an African American female adolescent who used the production of multimodal Hip Hop texts to express her creativity and growing socially conscious view of the world. The study demonstrates how students made meaning multimodally and…
Descriptors: Females, Ethnography, Urban Schools, Small Schools
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Serna, Carolina – Education, 2009
This study examined the writing development of English language learners (ELLs) in a fourth-grade bilingual classroom in Northern California. The purpose of this study was to explore the linguistic and cultural resources the students used to inform their writing and determine to what extent, if any, these resources influenced their writing. The…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Writing (Composition), Research Methodology, Bilingual Education
Saltmarsh, David – Australian Teacher Education Association, 2009
In 2004 the Australia Council of Deans of Education (ACDE) released a report entitled "New teaching, new learning: A vision for Australian education". This report was prepared on behalf of the ACDE by Mary Kalantzis and Andrew Harvey, respectively the President and Executive Officer of the ACDE. The argument put forward in the report is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Caring, Urban Schools, Popular Culture
Seiter, Ellen – Peter Lang New York, 2007
Based on four years of experience teaching computers to 8-12 year olds, media scholar Ellen Seiter offers parents and educators practical advice on what children need to know about the Internet and when they need to know it. "The Internet Playground" argues that, contrary to the promises of technology boosters, teaching with computers is…
Descriptors: Internet, Popular Culture, Teaching Methods, Media Literacy
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