| Description |
vi, 246 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
English literature departments as centers of the humanities / Ray B. Browne -- American studies and popular culture / Ray B. Browne -- Folklore to populore / Ray B. Browne -- Snap, crackle, pop culture and communication curricula / Carlnita Greene -- Is the anthropological study of popular culture still at a distance? / Benjamin K. Urish -- History: a river both wide and deep / Ray B. Browne -- On the linkages between sociology and popular culture / Arthur G. Neal -- Popular culture and philosophy / Raymond Ruble -- Interdisciplinary opportunities: therapeutic culture and the study of religion in the United States / Gregory Thompson -- Pop goes the geographer: synergies between geography and popular culture / Thomas L. Bell, Margaret M. Gripshover -- Popular culture and women's studies / Jane Caputi, Michelle Sharkey -- Popular culture in a business curriculum / Ann Kneavel -- Linkages between popular culture and economics / Helen Youngelson-Neal -- Popular culture and ethnic studies: curricular and pedagogic reflections / C. Richard King, David J. Leonard -- The value of teaching popular culture in the community college: a stew of abstract, concrete, serious, and not-so-serious notions / Lynn G. Bartholome -- Putting methodology where the mouth is: integrating popular culture into the traditional high school curriculum / Katherine Lynde -- Popular culture in sports, the popular culture of sports: a cross-disciplinary historical view / Douglas A. Noverr -- Teaching popular culture in relation to the social sciences: a critical-emancipatory view from Europe / Mel van Elteren |
| Summary |
This work emphasizes the need for interdisciplinary mingling and explores the ways in which instructors can utilize popular culture studies in order to deepen both their own areas of specialization and their students' appreciation of education |
| Analysis |
Curriculum & assessment |
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Cultural studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- United States.
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Popular culture -- Study and teaching.
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| Author |
Browne, Ray B. (Ray Broadus), 1922-2009.
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| LC no. |
2005280253 |
| ISBN |
0786420243 |
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