Radical%20Pedagogy%20in%20Teaching%20American%20Popular%20Culture

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Radical Pedagogy in Teaching American Popular
Culture

• Satoshi Tsukamoto
• Aichi University

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Todays Agenda

• Show three ways of understanding the texts
• in the media.
• Show how to interpret a movie

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Dominant Reading

• Viewers accept the dominant ideology in a movie
• Viewers feel pleasure.

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Negotiated Reading

• Viewers accept the dominant ideology, but they
  disagree to a specific message.
• Pleasure to a certain degree
• Resistance

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Oppositional Reading

• In direct opposition with the dominant ideology
  in a movie.
• Annoyance
• Rejection

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Dangerous Minds

• Popular Hollywood movie in 1995
• Michelle Pfeiffer as a high school teacher in an
  inner city

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First Day

• LouAnne Johnson is depicted as
• Innocent
• Decent
• Literate
• Orderly

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First Day

• Minority students are depicted as
• Delinquent
• Absurd
• Illiterate
• Chaotic

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Question

• What is the effect of depicting the teacher and
  the students in this way?
• Perpetuate the stereotypes of a white female
  teacher and black and Hispanic students

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Second Day

• LouAnne Johnson was
• Tough
• Trying to control the students
• Thinking that these students could not study
  without rewards

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Question

• Why did Ms. Johnson use these methods?
• She thought that fear and danger were the only
  emotion that these students could recognize.

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Conclusion

• Encourage students to critically understand the
  texts in a movie