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Teacher education does not focus on popular culture
Given time cultural studies will be as big in education as literature
Paul Willis- study on working class males in england-How do they formulate their own culture and resist the dominant culture? He found males saw school as one of the major inst. that reproduced the status quo. even though the men realized this, by rebelling, they gave the ruling class exactly what they wanted.
Leslie Roman and Linda Christian-Smith study-established the roots of cultural studies in education-Becoming Feminine-an alternative to male dominated discourse-offered their own interpretation of cultural studies that did not subdue women
Henry Giroux, combined a stinging criticism of the corporate influence on popular culture tastes while offering a distinct alternative to corporate popular culture that fosters the development of democratic ideals in schools and pop culture.

combined critique and hope
views people as objects, who do not interact with pop culture, but who are manipulated

reject ideas that children grow in progressive stages
studies on the myriad of ways corporations now shape the identities and affective tastes of young people. corporate ethos has shaped and infected the thinking of young people
Shirly Steinberg Joe Kincheloes work Kindercutlure-what does it mean to grow up in a postmodern, hyper-mediated, unrelenting corporatized world. The corporatizing of children undermind everything the parents value.

parents no longer raise kids alone, but along with nintendo, mcdonalds and tv.
the coproration promises the kids the world, the parents have to tell the kids they cant have it.

Gaile Cannella suggests we should give young people voices in the research and policies they advocate, against the amoral , nihilistic corporate values.
The strongest value instilled by the corporation is the will to consume. Ones identity is shaped by consumption. corporations use education to sell, and advertise in schools.

Consuming Children by Jane Kenway and Elizabeth Bullen-they chart the ways in which young people have been recast as untapped markets and the school curricula is seen as the first peublic relations opport. Taco bell, BK, and Pizza hut and coke have made inroads into schools.
Exonn has created an envirnmental curriculum
Schools are not innocent in this, they take gifts to save money at the expense of the child
They offer action, kids can retake their schools public space, and enter a dialoge
cyberflaneur, where kids can interact across states or nations to experience different cultures, to change their attitudes
Peter McLaren, sees consumerism as a fomr of predatory cutlure. to counteract the seductiveness of predatory culture mclaren seeks to create a critical pedagogy tha permits students to become actores in history rather than passive conduits. If they dont assert themselves others are ready to define them

How do images shape our reality
1.schools should offer students the opportunity to critique multimedia sources so they can see houw imaes construc reality and understand how they can critique images
2.schools should offer media sources as a supplement to written docs.

instead of just having them watch a movie and read a book, students should also learn how each medium is different and how each medium presents reality****

Robert Rosenstone, leading scholar comparing modern media, tv, with past media, books-

film cannot tell the story the same way, its too different
both are not the past, but merely represent the past
main point, is that while movies are limited to 2 hours, books have no space limit to tell a story.
film makers use techniques to overcome this like

condensation-taking numerous historical charectors and condensing them into one, or taking numerous events and condesing them into one event

advocates students as media creators-
when students interact with images, film ,and video they begin an engagement process.

Toby Daspit-believes that popular culture has become a place where students question the world and act as agents in the world in order to change the world

most dynamic field in eduction
best hope for understanding the relationship betwenen education and popular culture
Susan Edgerton-how cultural studies informs how we can rething schol curricula.
Peter Applebaums -How can e incorporate he ideas of our students into our curriculum plans.

asked elementary school kids how teachers could utilize the story lines of sat morning cartoons in the classroom
the teachers struggled

Noel Gough -if teachers want to teach science well they should abandon textbooks and use comics, a popular cultural source-text books do not cover the last hundred years like comics do?
These new ideas do not always work out, and the prized tenure is sometimes denied.
Greg Dimitriadis-studies african american youth in a small midwest urban setting.

hip hop provided answers for them , as to why capitalist america showed little interest in their plight as young people growng up in the USA

scholars will have start acknoledging the impact of pop culture in their research
violence on tv does not create violent people, it can fuel the creative faculties of a distubed young person, but focusing onhwat influences the imagination does not address what triggers a person to act violently.
a healhty approach would develop a pedagogy that utilizes the power of popuar culture in order to enhance democracy

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