About The Special Issue on Popular Culture and Education

The Fall 2003 issue of the Harvard Educational Review addresses the connection between popular culture and education, focusing in particular on how this connection resides in the public sphere. The aim of this issue is to introduce the study of popular culture in education to new audiences, and to challenge the frameworks and approaches to this crucial subject. The authors in this issue discuss a wide range of topics and perspectives, reflecting diverse methodologies. With this Special Issue, HER hopes to foster a dialogue among producers, consumers, and researchers of popular culture that will underscore its importance to education.

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Table of Contents

• Popular Culture and Democratic Practice
  by Nadine Dolby
• Merchants of Death: Media Violence and American Empire
  by David Trend
• Media Education and the End of the Critical Consumer
  by David Buckingham
• "Welcome to the Jam": Popular Culture, School Literacy, and the Making of Childhoods
  by Anne Haas Dyson
• Open Mics and Open Minds: Spoken Word Poetry in African Diaspora Participatory Literacy Communities
  by Maisha T. Fisher
• Foot Soldiers of Modernity: The Dialectics of Cultural Consumption and the 21st-Century School
  by Paul Willis
• Cultural Negotiations: Puerto Rican Intellectuals in a State-Sponsored Community Education Project, 1948-1968
  by Cati Marsh Kennerley
• Contesting Culture: Identity and Curriculum Dilemmas in the Age of Globalization, Postcolonialism, and Multiplicity
  by Cameron McCarthy, Michael Giardina, Susan Harewood, and Jin-Kyung Park

Reviews of Current Books (Full-Text):

• Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City
  by Sunaina Marr Maira

• Growing Up with Television: Everyday Learning among Adolescents
  by JoEllen Fisherkeller

• Latino/a Popular Culture
  edited by Michelle Habell-Pallán and Mary Romero

• Brave New Voices: The Youth Speaks Guide to Teaching Spoken Word Poetry
  by Jen Weiss and Scott Herndon

• Peace
  by Tucker Shaw

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Online Resources

Cultural Studies

• Critical and Cultural Studies
  http://www.vcsun.org/CCS/
• Cultural Studies Central
  http://www.culturalstudies.net/
• Popcultures.com
  Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center, this meta-site is Clearinghouse approved, very thorough.
  http://www.popcultures.com/
• Popular Culture: Resources for Critical Analysis
  http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/pop/tvrguide.html

International

• Manchester Institute for Popular Culture
  A multi-disciplinary research group that is concerned with the issues of "contemporary city cultures."
  http://www.mmu.ac.uk/h-ss/mipc/stories.php
• Popular Culture in Japan
  Comprehensive site of popular culture trends in Japan.
  http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/eac/popculture.html

Journals

• Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture
  http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/
• Journal of African Music and Popular Culture
  http://ntama.uni-mainz.de/
• Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
  http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/
• Studies in Popular Culture
  http://pcasacas.org/SPC/

Just for Fun

• Archie McPhee
  "Outfitters of Popular Culture since 1980," this site is a virtual catalogue of pop culture, sells toys and gifts.
  http://www.mcphee.com/
• Comics Scholarship
  http://www.hoboes.com/html/Comics/Scholarship.html
• HipHopMusic
  http://www.hiphopmusic.com/index.html
• History of American Popular Culture Resource Page
  Hosted by the Department of History, University of Colorado.
  http://web.uccs.edu/~istory/index/popcult.html
• The Knitting Circle
  LGBT-focused pop culture page hosted by the Gay and Lesbian Staff Association of South Bank University.
  http://myweb.lsbu.ac.uk/~stafflag/popularculture.html
• Popular Culture Appreciation Society
  Gateway site for popular culture on the web.
  http://home.vicnet.net.au/~popcult/

Popular Culture Studies

• Library of Congress Special Collections in Popular Culture
  http://lcweb.loc.gov/spcoll/spopu.html
• Pop Culture
  Meta-site for pop culture web sites: general; film; television; popular fiction; and authors; journals. Hosted by the English Department at the University of California - Berkeley. magazines, and publications.
  http://english.berkeley.edu/Postwar/pop.html
• Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
  H-Net, Humanities & Scial Sciences OnLine.
  http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca/pca/pcahistory.htm
• The Popular Culture Library
  Libraries and Learning Resources, Bowling Green State Library.
  http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/pcl.html

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Publishing Information

Popular Culture and Education
Special Issue of the Harvard Educational Review
ISSN 0017-8055
©2003
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276 pages

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