Popular Culture
Engaging with Popular Culture in Education
Test your understanding of the role and significance of popular culture in educational settings with this informative quiz. Explore insights from key authors and theorists as you navigate through various questions designed to enhance your knowledge.
Key Topics Covered:
- The impact of popular culture on student engagement
- Defining popular culture and its implications
- Critiques and advantages of popular culture in curriculum
What does Tait (2013) argue his case for?
Popular Culture used with in a school’s curriculum, engages students, to develop general learning and reasoning skills.
The absence of Popular culture within an educational setting alienates High School students.
"Aspects of student identities are not often formed from within a vocabulary of choices set out within popular culture”.
Popular culture is not study worthy.
What is Popular Culture? Select all that apply.
Popular Culture is something easily defined. Tait, (2013).
Tait, (2013) explores high and low popular culture (myth) binaries into 3 categories, That the division between high and low/ popular culture should not be relegated to the values of class systems but valued by its content.
The use of Popular Culture can help to define student identities. Tait, (2013)
Select the correct responses, there are more than one.
Why is the use of Popular Culture in a school’s curriculum often criticised?
The use of popular culture in an educational setting is for entertaining students.
Popular culture is only enjoyed by the low culture classes.
Popular culture doesn’t have any ‘literary worth’ to benefit schools and students
Select the response you think is most criticised.
What is the KEY ADVANTAGE of using popular culture in the classroom?
Bell & Gropshover 2005, & Kneavel, 2005 state that popular culture can be employed to teach everything from geography to business.
Popular Culture’, ‘It is about allowing students to participate more effectively in the fluid and reflexive processes of textual analysis, interpretation and ultimately enjoyment’. (Tait, 2013, p.184 & 185).
It seems strange to limit ourselves to a choice of texts than no longer necessarily reflect who we now are as a community or what we are interest in, or what we consider worth”. Tait, (2013).
Which KEY ADVANTAGE do you think is the most important?
Read this statement and select all that apply. A constructivist approach to ‘modelled, guided and independent practice’ might allow students to become greater ‘constructors of meaning’ through the use, inclusion and resources of Popular culture (Anthony & Walshaw, 2007 p.263). What resources would you use to improving students’ literary critical thinking skills?
YouTube video posts
The works of William Shakespeare
Internet memes
Analysing Lyrics to a song
Read this statement. The use of Popular culture role models provide important feedback about their continuous development of adolescent identities (Meeus, van de Schoot, Keijsers & Branje, 2001, p.170). How would you help students to be more critical in their treatment of pop culture and the identity elements it deals with?
Let Students identify their own identity
Incorporate cultural awareness into your classroom.
Provide an asset-based view of youth and unfamiliar identity groups
All the above
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