Fandom as Classroom Practice
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Fandom as Classroom Practice

A Teaching Guide

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eBook - ePub

Fandom as Classroom Practice

A Teaching Guide

About this book

Providing ways to engage students through their popular culture interests, this collection brings together several essays, across disciplines, to show how fan practices such as writing fan fiction, creating vids, communicating via Tumblr, and participating in film tourism can invite students to invest more of themselves into their education. 

Both scholarship and fandom encourage passionate engagement with texts—rather than passive consumption in isolation— and editor Katherine Anderson Howell and her contributors find that when students are encouraged to partake in a remix classroom that encourages their fan interests, they participate more in their education, are more critical of experts and authorities, and actively shape the discourse themselves. Creating this remix classroom requires thoughtfulness on the instructor's part, and so the chapters in this volume come from teachers who have carefully constructed such courses, including several invaluable appendices that provide examples of methodologies, course assignments, teaching practices, and classroom setup. Each chapter also includes student responses that offer a sense of what students gained from each course. 

The result is an exciting and entertaining new way to motivate students and teachers alike, and it is sure to be a popular reference guide for instructors teaching classes from high school to graduate levels. 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction. Invitation: Remix Pedagogy in the Fandom Classroom
  8. 1. Adaptation as Analysis: Creative Work in an English Classroom
  9. 2. Becoming a Subcreator: Response to “Studies in Medievalism: Tolkien and Myth-Making”
  10. 3. Researching the Shawshank Trail: Fan Pilgrimage and Service Learning
  11. 4. Reblog, Like, and Freewrite: Online Blogging Spaces in the Composition Classroom
  12. 5. Using Tumblr in the Classroom: Reflections on EH101S
  13. 6. Fan Activities in Online University Education
  14. 7. Teaching Deconstruction Using Fan Vids
  15. 8. Reacting to (Re)Edits: A Student’s Experience with Vids
  16. 9. “You Do Realize The Lion King Is Set in Africa, Right?”: Utilizing Fan Studies to Teach about Race and Racism in the University Classroom
  17. 10. Waves of Fandom in the Fan Studies Classroom
  18. 11. Creation and Analysis: Response to the Fandom and Active Audiences Class
  19. Appendix A. Interview with Priyadharshini Seetharaman
  20. Appendix B. Syllabi and Course Design
  21. Appendix C. Assignments
  22. Bibliography
  23. Contributors
  24. Index