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Wilson, Brent; Wilson, Marjorie – School Arts, 1980
Fifteen-year-old John Scott created a 35-page science fiction comic. The authors describe his effort to demonstrate that art teachers should not denigrate such work simply because it derives from popular culture, for it is a valid form of creative expression and one which teaches important artistic processes. (SJL)
Descriptors: Art Education, Comics (Publications), Creative Expression, High School Students
Toman, John – CORE, 1979
The relationship between the curriculum, especially English, and popular music is explored. A review of research is presented, curricular changes are suggested, the role of English teachers is examined, and critical analysis of popular trends is advocated (f=fiche number). (MH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitude Change, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Mollica, Anthony – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Describes the use of advertisements in language instruction, with particular attention to the language of advertisements, including the conative and emotive functions, linguistic shock, translation, humor, and cultural information. (AM)
Descriptors: Commercial Art, Educational Media, Humor, Language Instruction
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Weaver, Bruce – Reference Librarian, 1997
Presents a selective annotated list of sports-related Web sites for reference use. Includes sports indexes/links; media sites (networks and periodicals); recreation sites; and professional organizations. (Author)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Athletics, Information Networks, Information Services
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Taylor, Rhonda Harris; Overmier, Judith A. – Emergency Librarian, 1996
Benefits for including popular culture resources in the school library resource center and classroom are that they provide entrees for communication and teaching; baselines of student knowledge; abundant and popular resources; opportunities for teaching critical thinking skills; and diversity. Discusses how teacher librarians can choose the most…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Thinking, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Resources
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Nelms, Ben – English Education, 1996
Presents reminiscences of a former editor of "English Education," discussing English teacher education during the 1970s and some of the difficult transitional moments during that era. Discusses methods courses, changes in the curriculum, and outside critics of English education. (TB)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational History, English Teacher Education
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Cawkell, Tony – Journal of Information Science, 1997
Examines consumer services delivered via the Internet. Discusses social and political factors (regulation, commercial alliances, copyright), specific applications (home banking and shopping, distance education, electronic mail, games, telecommuting), and constraints of data transmission. Since many applications are based on videoconferencing,…
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Information Services, Information Systems, Interactive Television
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Pedersen, E. Martin – Social Education, 1997
Contrasts the working life of the U.S. cowboy with the whitewashed myth promulgated throughout the media. Discovers some parallels between the nomadic loner embodying an individual code of honor and the Hollywood representation. Discusses the genesis of "the singing cowboy" and includes examples of the actual early ballads. (MJP)
Descriptors: Ballads, Cultural Images, Folk Culture, Legends
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Berry, E. Helen – Teaching Sociology, 2001
Focuses on the setting of a science and career fair; and discusses the use of cultural artifacts. Examines the use of folk dolls in a science and career fair. Includes background information and addresses the reasons for using the dolls. Includes references. (CMK)
Descriptors: Careers, Cultural Awareness, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
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Lembo, Ronald; Tucker, Kenneth H., Jr. – Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1990
Addresses issues of culture, cultural politics, social power, and television audience in cultural studies. Argues that cultural studies as a field tends to analyze all cultural interpretation in terms of struggles between dominant and subordinate groups and that the text-centered approach of cultural studies misses much of television viewing's…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Audience Participation, Audiences, Communication Research
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Perse, Elizabeth M.; And Others – Human Communication Research, 1990
Examines how college students' marital schemata influences their evaluations of television couples' marital satisfaction. Finds that greater similarity between marital schemata and ratings of television couples' marriage type was associated with higher ratings of perceived television marital satisfaction. Notes that this effect held only for the…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Characterization, College Students, Commercial Television
Maniquis, Robert M. – Humanities, 1989
Describes a program dealing with films depicting the French Revolution sponsored by the University of California Los Angeles. Emphasizes lectures and a colloquium discussing the ways in which films can transform common political ideas of the moment into popular memory of the past. Examines several films included in this national film…
Descriptors: Art, European History, Film Study, Films
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Lo, Leslie Nai-Kwai – Journal of Aesthetic Education, 1989
Reports on a research study that highlights educational and pedagogical issues in nonformal programs for teaching the visual and performing arts in a midwestern province of China. Finds that government subsidizing has lead to some amount of success but that this very interference creates problems of both a financial and political nature. (KO)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Education, Chinese Culture, Cross Cultural Studies
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Gomery, Douglas – Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1989
Lays out a framework for economic analysis of the mass media in American culture. Argues for its utility for understanding the workings of the television, motion picture, newspaper, and radio industries, as well as for evaluating appropriate public policy responses and considering historical trends. (MS)
Descriptors: Cultural Interrelationships, Economic Factors, Economic Research, Films
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Whatley, Mariamne H. – Journal of Education, 1988
Discusses issues of men's sexuality in the context of school sex education, and analyzes units on human reproduction in secondary biology textbooks. Compares official school knowledge about men's sexuality with alternative sources, including progressive books and the films of John Hughes, to explore the overlapping and contradictory discourses…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Biology, Discourse Analysis, Educational Practices
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