Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Week 2 - Pop Objects, Pop Video, Gender & Teaching

Watch Fiona Apple, Lil' Kim and Avril Lavigne videos at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTpvjNn2BUM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2eUCfREAbw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrDIlVsUmK4>

Read "Barbies without Ken: Femininity, Feminism, and the Art-Culture System" from Welcome to the Dreamhouse by Lynn Spigel

Read "American Popular Culture: Should We Integrate It Into American Education?" by Thomas Fain Jr.

Create a lesson plan that deals with popculture representations of gender (men/women or both) that brings students into dialogue so they think critically, thoughtfully, not denying the pleasure of pop culture but putting it into perspectivewith other discourses in contemporary culture, social, political, etc....

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