Teaching Peace Through Popular Culture
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Teaching Peace Through Popular Culture

  1. 204 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Teaching Peace Through Popular Culture

About this book

Drawing from many disciplinary areas, this edited volume illustrates the many ways that popular culture can be used to teach peace and justice. Chapters address such topics as teaching about racism, domestic violence, structural violence, conflict analysis, decolonization, critiques of capitalism, and peacebuilding, showing how different forms of popular culture can be utilized to enhance student learning. Contributors provide both theoretical backgrounds and concrete lessons using TV, film, music, graphic novels, and more.

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Information

Publisher
Information Age Publishing
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9798887304298
9798887304304
eBook ISBN
9798887304311
Edition
2
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Teaching Social Science

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Teaching Peace Through Popular Culture: 2nd Edition
  3. Series
  4. Teaching Peace Through Popular Culture: 2nd Edition
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments and Dedication
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Using Horror Films to Teach About Structural Violence and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution
  10. 2. “Runnin’ ” From the Pharcyde and T.I.’s “Warzone”: Sneaking Peace and Social Justice Into the Classroom
  11. 3. “Armageddon It Been in Effect”: Utopia, Dystopia, or UNtopia?: A Conversation With Ursula K. Le Guin, Sarah Pinsker, & N. K. Jemisin
  12. 4. Dangerous Education: Teaching College Writing Using Nonfiction Graphic Novels
  13. 5. Using Popular Culture to Teach About Domestic Abuse and Healthy Relationships
  14. 6. Stephen King’s Horror Films and Child Abuse and Neglect: Lessons to Be Learned for Understanding, Assistance, and Prevention
  15. 7. The Critiques of Structural Functionalism, Colonialism, and Capitalism Using Violence in Modern Science Fiction Classics: The Matrix, Alien: Resurrection, and Starship Troopers
  16. 8. Learning to Transform Conflict Through Popular Culture Analysis
  17. 9. A Literature, Design, and Arts-Based English as a Second Language (ESL) Classroom Model
  18. 10. Hearing All of the Americas: Coloniality and Authenticity in the Music of Kendrick Lamar and Residente
  19. Conclusion
  20. About the Editor and Authors

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