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Direct linkDel Nero, Jennifer – Reading Improvement, 2019
This conceptual article explores early adolescent students' responses to an experimental Gothic reading unit (including popular culture and traditional texts). The Gothic genre was selected due to both its prevalence in youth culture and lack of representation in reading classrooms. This hybrid curriculum increased academic reading engagement in…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Adolescent Literature, Classics (Literature), Reading Instruction
Amaral, Mônica Guimarães Teixeira do; Hetti, Maria Patrícia Cândido – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2020
This article seeks to explore the theoretical contributions of Axel Honneth, particularly in his works, "The Struggle for Recognition and Reification," aiming at diving deep into the debate on the contemporary ideological expressions and their incidence in the process of subjective constitution in teenage years. This particular interest…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Cultural Influences
Ashley K. Dallacqua; David E. Low – English Journal, 2019
Located in the suburbs of a large midwestern city, Trail Middle School serves a predominantly middle-class population. The data the authors feature in this article include group discussions and interviews with students, as well as recordings of in-class lessons, student work, and fieldnotes. The authors focus on the theme of gender as it emerged…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Gender Issues, Gender Bias, Student Attitudes
Turner-Musa, Jocelyn O.; Rhodes, Warren A.; Harper, P. Thandi Hicks; Quinton, Sylvia L. – Journal of Drug Education, 2008
Substance use and HIV risk behaviors are increasing among African-American youth. Interventions that incorporate youth values and beliefs are needed to reduce this trajectory. Hip-hop plays an important role in the lives of many African-American youth and provides a context within which to prevent risky behaviors. The current study examines the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Youth, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Peer reviewedChandler-Olcott, Kelly; Mahar, Donna – Reading Research Quarterly, 2003
Explores early adolescent girls' use of digital technologies in their literacy practices. Highlights the technology-mediated literacy practices of two seventh-grade girls. Discusses two major themes which emerged from data analysis: the centrality of multimedia popular culture texts in the girls' technology-mediated designing; and the importance…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Computer Mediated Communication, Females, Gender Issues
Kadakia, Maya – TechTrends: Linking Research & Practice to Improve Learning, 2005
During the 2004-2005 school year, Maya Kadakia conducted a pilot study of her master's project which focuses on how student engagement is affected by a curriculum that incorporates popular culture. She created a Language Arts unit which incorporates the video game Morrowhid. Maya teaches seventh grade Language Arts and Social Studies at a diverse…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Educational Needs, Video Games, Popular Culture
