Philippine Normal University National Center for Teacher Education Faculty of Education Sciences Pop culture as a medium of instruction, to use or not to use? ALFARO MARISOL SALES BFE II-4 PROF. GERRY ARETA Pop culture has widely influenced different sectors of the society including politics, different cultures of different countries, everyday activities, styles and most importantly, Education. Pop culture simply defined as “… generally recognized as the vernacular or people’s culture that predominates in a society at a point in time” (Delaney 2016). It has a huge effect on the learning process of person whether he/ she is a child or not. Because of its easy access, pop culture can penetrate another culture easily through media …show more content…
Results may like be the other definition of pop culture whereas “The term ‘popular culture’ holds different meanings depending on who’s defining it and the context of use.” (Delaney, 2016) Education has a wide range of influence in a life span of every people. Especially on getting a good life that every people dreams of. Educators nowadays seek for new ways or new strategies for the dynamic world of teaching. Pedagogy has the most transparent and the most used word in the Educators language. This is where the pop culture opens with wide arms. In today’s ever changing world, where technology gives its full shot on changing the traditional and passive learning styles of children, pop culture is imminent, making it as a way of saver. But, a lot of educators think that technologies such as, the application of pop culture is an enemy on educating young …show more content…
Pop culture may have advantage and advantages but for an educator who knows that there is a war between the traditional way and the technology, making use of pop culture as a tool is very useful. References: Laderer, K. (2012, January 19). Campus Technology News. Retrieved March 28, 2016, from https://campustechnology.com/articles/2012/01/19/pros-and-cons-of-social-media-in-the-classroom.aspx Bohn, J. (2013, October 03). John Bohn: The uses and drawbacks of popular culture. Retrieved March 28, 2016, from https://www.michigandaily.com/arts/10uses-and-disadvantages-popular-culture03 West, G. (n.d.). What Is Popular Culture? Retrieved March 28, 2016, from http://mrpopculture.com/what-is-pop-culture Storey, J. (2006). Get this book in print▼ My library My History Books on Google Play Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, (Vol. 2). Pearson Prentice Hall, ISBN 978-0-13-197068-7. "one look at the sheer mass and volume of what we euphemistically call our popular culture suffices", from Winthrop Sargeant, 'In Defense of the High-Brow', an article from LIFE magazine, 11 April 1949, p.
Popular culture is a combination of ideas, images and an array of people’s perspective to what they define as being the mainstream of a given culture. Over the years, this widely misinterpreted phenomenon has been heavily influenced by today’s mass media that permeates the everyday lives of society by altering our attitudes and perceptions towards certain topics. Subsequently, upon reading Anolik’s article titled, “How OJ Simpson Killed Pop Culture”, I second guessed myself to the sense that how can one individual disrupt an entire culture? Even though the article is about a famous football player who was allegedly charged for the murder of his ex-wife. Nevertheless, after constructive analysis of the article, one now can understand the author’s
In the article, “What Monkeys Eat: A Few Thoughts About Pop Culture Writing” Linda Holmes is trying to explain that we should focus the study of pop culture from what we ought to watch, read, or listen to, to what we actually watch, read, or listen to. What we take in to entertain ourselves is what drives the conversations we have on a daily basis. “What monkeys eat” is referring to us as the monkeys, and what we eat to our forms of entertainment. The shows we watch an the celebrities we follow are all what “we eat.” These influential factors are what we mostly write about, instead of the more important topics such as, war or how the economy will look in the future.
What Will America Be Remembered For? – Sean Smith INTRO When I was younger, the first few years of history class tended to gloss over most of history, leaving only a paragraph or two for each of the big players: Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, etc. What did I expect, we can’t teach kids all of history, we need to shrink every period down to small digestible bites. Here’s the question though: What will America’s paragraph read like?
Steinem, Gloria. ‘‘Sex, Lies, and Advertisting’’ Signs of Life in the U.S.A.: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers. Ed. Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon. Boston: Bedford, 1994.
Culture is the defining aspect of an entire society. Throughout America's history, each decade has displayed its own unique take on culture, through the arts, fashion, and pastimes. The 1950's were a time of bright colors, household gadgets and many of the shows and movies that are currently deemed 'classic' were originated in this era. Technology and household items Americans use every day were invented and have evolved since the 1950's. The 1950's were the beginning of an innovative time in American culture and included the creation of television, the growing popularity of movies, music and brand new inventions, however, unexpectedly conformity and consumerism resulted as well.
Popular culture is a culture based on what society deems to be sought-after, trendy or popular. This extends to everything, including; fashion, food, music, sport and entertainment. World War 2 allowed close affiliation between America and ourselves to take place. Originally, Australia’s culture was completely influenced by Britain. For the first time Australia experienced foreign leverage from a different country.
Culture is an embodiment of a society’s values. The representation of American culture is rapidly changing, showing a plethora of beliefs over the decades. Every change comes with controversy, new radical ideas of the upcoming generation challenging the previous. Once deemed taboos become socially acceptable and ideas once thought absurd are altered to become social norms. For example, when rock and roll debuted in the late nineteen sixties it caused conservative Americans belonging to the fifties to believe the new music of the generation was causing internal decadence.
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Subcultures form due to our deep rooted preference for likeminded individuals and ideas. We hold anxieties about how people are different and we worry about our own status within society (Andrew Campa 2015 YouTube). Schouten and Alexander (1995) describe that “a subculture of consumption is a distinctive subgroup of society that self-selects on the basis of a shared commitment to a particular products class, brand or consumption activity” (43). It is through this continued communal consumption that an individual finds social validation for their beliefs, value and way of life. Popular culture has magnified high school subcultural identities.
Without the correct guidance, this statement may hold true for some students, but if teachers recognize that technology, like anything else, must be monitored and used only in proper context, that danger disappears. Technology can even be blended with traditional learning in order to maximize efficiency. Students could be asked to read a work of classic literature such as Shakespeare and later be asked to post on an online discussion board about their interpretations and reading experiences. In the end, students will learn more through technology because it provides a setting in which they are able to understand and relate to the information. Still, other critics of technology in school argue that technology hinders creativity and imagination (Source C).
Media affect teenagers the most because they spend a lot of time exploring things on it and this could harm them in a negative way. For example: when teenagers watch romantic movies, they could act differently to their love life because they got influenced by the things that they watched. Teenagers could change their behavior due to the things they watch on TV shows, movies, and videos. The young people of today appear to be excessively fascinated in viewing their most loved shows on TV or utilizing web-based social networking
The content of popular culture is favorably determined by industries that disseminate cultural material, for example publishing industries, as well as mass media that greatly influences the people (Wilson, 2014). In spite of this, popular culture is not only the collective product imposed by industries and media, rather, it is the result of the continuing interaction between those industries and media and the people of the society who consume their products (Wilson, 2014). Masses decide and consume what is popular. With all of these things taken into consideration, what role does pop culture play in education? Since pop culture permeates the everyday lives of the people in the society, teachers have to be innovative in a way that they will take into account integrating or using pop culture as their teaching material because they see it as an opportunity for students to become more interested, further engaged, and actively involved in the classroom for the reason that students play an important role in determining what’s pop culture or not thereby making themselves consumers of pop
Over the last few decades, the world has witnessed the evolution of many different aspects of popular cultures, such as movies, technology, music, and fashion. Although the medium of Pop Culture has a lot to do with whether or not it actually causes change or if it just reflects on what has taken place. The general trend is that Pop Culture is utilized to reflect changes in people’s attitudes and beliefs, and only in rare instances does it actually cause significant changes. Movies in the 1970s and 80s are prime examples of how popular culture reflects on what is going on in society at the time, however, technological advancements in the 1990s is an anomalous example of when popular culture has caused changes in society.
People are immersed in popular culture during most of our waking hours. It is on radio, television, and our computers when we access the Internet, in newspapers, on streets and highways in the form of advertisements and billboards, in movie theaters, at music concerts and sports events, in supermarkets and shopping malls, and at religious festivals and celebrations (Tatum,
The media has long played a role in influencing how people construct and perceive the world. Media has influenced how people construct their thoughts, most often their perception towards someone. Youth in particular, have been presented in a variety of ways in the media. Although teenagers are portrayed differently as an individual, based upon characteristics and personality, the media is constructed to sell certain ideologies of youth or the youth culture in general to the audiences and then to the society. The media promotes both, diversity and conformity when representing the youth culture in the media but in my opinion, conformity reigns superiority.