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Literacy and Popular Culture: Using Children's Culture in the Classroom (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780761966197)
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xMost children engage with a range of popular cultural forms outside of school. Their experiences with film, television, computer games and other cultural texts are very motivating, but often find no place within the official curriculum, where children are usually restricted to conventional forms of literacy.
This book demonstrates how to use children′s interests in popular culture to develop literacy in the primary classroom. The authors provide a theoretical basis for such work through an exploration of related theory and research, drawing from the fields of education, sociology and cultural studies.
Teachers are often concerned about issues of sexism, racism, violence and commercialism within the disco
Author: Jackie Marsh,Elaine M. Millard
ISBN-10: 0761966196
ISBN-13: 9780761966197
Publisher: Sage Publications UK
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2001
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.18w x 0.56d
By Jackie Marsh
xJackie Marsh is a Lecturer in Literacy Education, and Elaine Millard is a Senior Lecturer in Literacy Education, at the University of Sheffield. Both authors have published widely in the field of literacy and are engaged in research projects with teachers which are focused on the use of media and popular culture in schools.
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