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Joanna Richards – Gender and Education, 2024
Since the public intellectuals of the 1960s, there has been a shift towards the celebrity academic, as subjects such as history and science have transferred into popular television entertainment, often with female academics as the presenters. Using a case study of the British media, a post-feminist lens has been applied to examine how 17 celebrity…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Females, Higher Education, Mass Media
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Hueyuen Choong – International Journal of Music Education, 2024
This article explores the ways in which popular musicians in Malaysia learn the craft of Western popular music-making in comparison to those in the United Kingdom. Literature that studied popular musicians and their practices had largely focused on communities within Anglosphere regions, and there are insufficient understandings of the journeys of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Musicians, Cultural Differences, Popular Culture
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Alethea Cassandra de Villiers; Robert Gillmer – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: The aim of the article is to develop a framework for assessment for contemporary commercial music (CCM) in a music department that is still organised in a traditional way. Assessment of CCM in tertiary institutions and external graded music exams were described and analysed, followed by the presentation of an assessment framework.…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Universities, Foreign Countries, Music
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Poon, Pearly Tsz Wai; Chen, Jason Chi Wai – Music Education Research, 2023
This study explores the impacts of popular music education in classroom practices from different aspects such as learning by ear, motivation, musicianship, peer learning and creativity. The Sing by Ear approach was created based on the concepts of informal learning in singing a cappella. A total of 323 participants aged 11-14 were invited to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Popular Culture, Music Techniques
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Martin, Alexander P. – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2022
Politics and International Relations (Pol & IR) lecturers can capitalise on the established relationship between comedy and political analysis by using humour techniques to enhance the student learning experience and to develop students' critical analysis skills. Using collected data from focus groups with 21 British and International…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Humor, Political Science, International Relations
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Ewing, Lee-Ann; Ewing, Michael; Cooper, Holly – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2021
Most western countries face either existing or looming teacher shortages. No doubt there are many and varied reasons for this and no simple remedy. Contemporaneously, film and television can have profound, often unintended attitudinal and behavioural consequences. As reflectors and creators of societal values, axiomatically, they provide insight…
Descriptors: Literary Devices, Mass Media Effects, Films, Video Technology
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Vizcaíno-Verdú, Arantxa; Contreras-Pulido, Paloma; Guzmán-Franco, María-Dolores – Learning, Media and Technology, 2021
YouTube has grown into an unprecedented music industry where informal learning practices converge among young musicians now considered authentic internet (micro)celebrities. Due to the rise of music video trends on the platform and the educative demands to explore youth interaction on the internet, this study analyses the self-perception of…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Video Technology, Musicians, Adolescents
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Sands-O'Connor, Karen – Global Studies of Childhood, 2018
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, British punk and reggae artists united to fight racism throughout society. Young people embraced the ideology of these musical forms, and many wrote about and published their experiences with racism and the police, and their desire to change society. Children's and young adults' highly politicized writing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music, Musicians, Racial Bias
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Hall, Rich – International Journal of Music Education, 2019
The popular music performance undergraduate degree is a growing area within UK higher education. These courses carry a vocational emphasis and are popular with students looking to establish professional performing careers. As such, they are often marketed as an intermediary step towards this aspiration but, despite their popularity, there has been…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Undergraduate Students, Higher Education
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Hoare, Lottie – History of Education, 2017
This paper examines controversy concerning the televising of the documentary "This Is the BBC" (1959) and situates the dispute in a wider cultural context of media criticism of Oxford University in particular, and academic educators more generally, in the period 1956-1960. Technological change, increased television ownership and a…
Descriptors: Documentaries, News Reporting, Educational History, Television
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Zukas, Alex – History Teacher, 2020
Taking a lead from recent articles in "The History Teacher," the author placed history, popular culture, and historical literacy at the core of a history course entitled "Enchanted Capitalism: Myths, Monsters, and Markets." Drawing on folklore, literature, popular culture, and economics, the course explored the rise of…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Popular Culture, Literacy, Course Descriptions
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Parkinson, Tom; Smith, Gareth Dylan – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2015
Popular music education is becoming firmly established as an academic field, in the UK and internationally. In order to help ensure that scholarship and practice within the field develop in reflexive and ethical ways appropriate to particular traditions, musics, people and institutional contexts, the authors advocate a discursive and iterative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Epistemology, Popular Culture, Music Education
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Brown, Eleanor J.; Nicklin, Laura Louise – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2019
This article explores the impact of a global youth work project that aimed to engage young people in social issues through the medium of hip-hop. We discuss the literature on education for social justice and then give an overview of the hip-hop project we analysed. We go on to explore the qualitative findings, asking what practices were most…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Music, Youth Programs, Social Justice
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Cohen, Laurie; Duberley, Joanne – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2013
The generation of brand new data seems to be an unwritten rule of much social research and the career field is no exception. However, in these austere economic times, we need to urgently reconsider our research norms and to think of creative ways of doing more for less. We would argue that given the "ordinariness" of the career concept…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Popular Culture, Programming (Broadcast), Careers
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Pulman, Mark – International Journal of Music Education, 2014
There has been little published pedagogical research on popular music group rehearsing. This study explores the perceptions of tutors and student pop/rock bands about the rehearsals in which they were involved as a part of their university music course. The participants were 10 tutors and 16 bands from eight British tertiary institutions. Analysis…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Teaching Methods, Guidelines
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