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Beck, Bernard – Multicultural Perspectives, 2012
The decline of the soap opera as a major form of popular culture highlights the importance of that form in creating and maintaining a shared subculture for women. Soap operas are contrasted with recent television and film works that present the struggles of women in a different way, highlighting the distinctive features of soap operas as women's…
Descriptors: Drama, Popular Culture, Females, Television
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Gorgosz, Jon – American Educational History Journal, 2014
On a June, summer day at Albion College, Byron Stokes and Dudleigh Vernor, two undergraduate members of the local chapter of Sigma Chi fraternity, sat down at the college organ in Dickie Hall and coined the most famous song in fraternity history, "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi" ("The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi," n.d.a). The tune…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Gender Issues, Femininity, Popular Culture
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Belcher, Christina; Maich, Kimberly – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2014
This article explores how storied representations of characters with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are typified in a world that is increasingly influenced by popular media. Twenty commercially published children's picture books, popular novels, mainstream television programs, and popular movies from 2006-2012 were selected using purposive,…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Social Attitudes, Mass Media, Mass Media Effects
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Weinstein, Susan; West, Anna – Harvard Educational Review, 2012
In this article, Susan Weinstein and Anna West embark on a critical analysis of the maturing field of youth spoken word poetry (YSW). Through a blend of firsthand experience, analysis of YSW-related films and television, and interview data from six years of research, the authors identify specific dynamics that challenge young poets as they…
Descriptors: Risk, Criticism, Poetry, Poets
Marjanovic, Tatjana – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2013
An essentially qualitative structural and semantic analysis is performed on the text of an "American Idol" coverage posted on yahoo.com January 24, 2013, constituting a micro-corpus of 2,739 words. Since such stories feature entertainment laced with a shot of drama and scandal, most of us share similar expectations as to what packaging…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Popular Culture, Semantics, Television
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Falter, Michelle M. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2014
Adolescents often bring popular culture into school, but often these literacies are not embraced or taught in the English classroom. The author makes the case for using "Glee" in the classroom by demonstrating its persuasive power to disrupt heteronormative notions of gender and sexuality with teens. The author uses a feminist rhetorical…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Adolescents, Literacy Education, Television
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Miller, Ann Neville; Nalugya, Evangeline; Gabolya, Charles; Lagot, Sarah; Mulwanya, Richard; Kiva, Joseph; Nabasaaka, Grace; Chibita, Monica – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2016
Although mounting evidence in Western nations indicates that entertainment media influence young people's sexual socialisation, virtually no research has addressed the topic in sub-Saharan Africa. The present study employed 14 focus groups of Ugandan high school students to identify media through which they were exposed to sexual content, how they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Popular Culture, Leisure Time
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Jubas, Kaela – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2013
In this article, the author outlines an analysis of the American show "Grey's Anatomy" as an example of how popular culture represents identity and the process of professional identity construction in a medical workplace, particularly the surgical service of a large urban hospital. In discussing identity, she connects professional identity to…
Descriptors: Television, Programming (Broadcast), Popular Culture, Surgery
Eyestone, Dawn – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The ability to "critically" consume entertainment media is a necessary skill for an educated and functional society--a polis; however, contemporary college students are experienced consumers of pop culture but not necessarily critical ones. Since categories of identity (race, class, gender, sexual orientation, dis/ability, culture) are…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Popular Culture, College Students, Identification (Psychology)
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Bednarek, Monika – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2012
This paper analyses the linguistic construction of the televisual character Sheldon--the "main nerd" in the sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" (CBS, 2007-), approaching this construction of character through both computerised and "manual" linguistic analysis. More specifically, a computer analysis of dialogue (using concordances and keyword analysis) in…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Interpersonal Communication, Personality, Cues
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Swiderski, David J.; Amadio, Dean M. – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2013
Instructors of psychology typically use a variety of methods to teach concepts. The present double-blind experiment is intended to determine the effectiveness of popular television clips as exemplars of Piagetian concepts compared to verbal descriptions of the same exemplars among a sample of 86 undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Piagetian Theory, Concept Teaching
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Collins, Karen – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2012
The use of pop culture as a tool for learning and instruction is paramount. Therefore, it is imperative for teachers to be aware of, and incorporate, trends that are popular and reflect the student experience. This article addresses the pop culture trends that can positively affect teaching, coaching education, and sport psychology practice.…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Sport Psychology, Athletic Coaches, Student Experience
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Wohlwend, Karen E.; Medina, Carmen L. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2012
In this conceptual piece, we examine media as a nexus of a traditional schooling pedagogy and performance pedagogy to make visible how their overlapping elements produce media's pervasive educative force but also to gain a deeper understanding of the complexities of using media in educational contexts. Nexus analysis examines a fashion makeover…
Descriptors: Television, Popular Culture, Mass Media Role, Clothing
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Jubas, Kaela; Knutson, Patricia – Studies in Continuing Education, 2013
This article proceeds from three main premises. First, we assert that popular culture functions pedagogically and helps cultural consumers learn about work, even before they enter educational programs or workplaces. Second, we argue that exploring portrayals of internship is useful in understanding the "attributes of formality and informality"…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Television, Anatomy, Popular Culture
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Beck, Bernard – Multicultural Perspectives, 2010
Two recent popular entertainments, the television series "Damages" and the movie "State of Play", have business organizations and people in the roles of villains. As thrillers, they employ the conventions that allow the audience to identify the good guys and the bad guys. The fact that business is an institutional area that can be so easily…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Folk Culture, Cultural Education, Multicultural Education
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