Popular culture as pedagogy in the political theory classroom: reflections from higher education

Jester, Natalie

doi:10.1057/s41304-020-00287-6

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“…The elections were supposed to determine where the country goes next. Using popular culture to create the simulation's fictional environment was a conscious choice, as its familiar nature helps students acclimate to the classroom (Jester, 2020).…”

Section: Political Communication Research Labmentioning

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More Than a YouTube Channel: Engaging Students in an Online Classroom

Gaufman

Möller

2022

Pandemic Pedagogy

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Introduction: The Pandemic as Setback for Active Learning?"University is not a YouTube Channel!" insisted students in the spring of 2020. 1 Under normal circumstances, nobody would doubt this claim. In a global pandemic, however, little if anything is normal. In 2020 and 2021, the Corona crisis has heavily unsettled mundane practices and perceptions within university teaching and learning in most parts of the world. Suddenly, the statement of a university not being a YouTube

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Section: Political Communication Research Labmentioning

confidence: 99%

More Than a YouTube Channel: Engaging Students in an Online Classroom

Gaufman

Möller

2022

Pandemic Pedagogy

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“…There are a few exceptions: Chaddha and Wilson (2011) employ The Wire as a depiction of the systematic inequalities in urban America in teaching about urban politics. Randell-Moon and Randell (2020) use Parks and Recreation as part of a public management curriculum to show how the bureaucratic is also the political, while Jester (2021) discusses the ways that popular culture can be used to make political theory more accessible for students, drawing on films and television series. Scholars in related disciplines have more concretely dealt with the pedagogy of integrating television into the classroom.…”

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Using television series to teach comparative and European politics

Stenberg

Switek

2022

Eur Polit Sci

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Despite increasing access to high quality television (TV) series in the golden age of television, political scientists (and especially scholars of comparative politics) have not systematically considered the possibilities that television series might offer for instruction. This article aims to fill this gap by illustrating the opportunities for teaching political science using TV series and outlining ways of integrating television series into the classroom using selected clips, screening full episodes, or using an entire series as a text. We then illustrate these methods by discussing ways that television series might be used in a typical introductory course on European politics.

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“…Popular culture occupies an andragogical function in daily life. It can locate and circulate learning and politics in life (Jester, 2020). It teaches citizens about rules, parameters, hopes and expectations.…”

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IJSSES

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This article enters the Dark Simpsons to provide theories of un/popular culture, while summoning models of dark pop. The piece commences with a conventional presentation of memes. However, their accelerated movement is probed and monitored to understand the agitated transformations between popular and un/popular culture. These models are then applied to an investigation of the Dark Simpsons and the rationale for this troubled and troubling cultural system.

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Popular culture as pedagogy in the political theory classroom: reflections from higher education

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Cited by 7 publications

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More Than a YouTube Channel: Engaging Students in an Online Classroom

More Than a YouTube Channel: Engaging Students in an Online Classroom

Using television series to teach comparative and European politics

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