Additional seminar information for your consideration:
EPE 773-401 Seminar in Educational Policy Studies & Evaluation "Global Education and Popular Culture"
This seminar will consider the convergence of popular culture, mass media, consumerism, globalization, education, and neo-liberal pedagogies for makeover, self-governance, assimilation, mobility, and self-enterprise. We will examine how popular culture and media pedagogies help to shape gendered identities, otherness, collectivities, and desires. It will also explore the impacts of these forces on formal educational and practices, self-help and informal educational spaces, teaching and life-long learning and peer cultures. This course will highlight the production, consumption, and diffusion of various forms of popular culture including films, television programming including Reality TV shows, magazines, toys, and the internet. We will analyze the ways these forms of popular culture mediate femininities, masculinities, class, ethnicities, race, sexualities, distinction, citizenship and belonging, embodiment, empowerment, self-enterprise and makeover, consumerism, and celebrity. The objectives of this course include enhancing our understandings of transnational patterns of gendered education, normalization, cultural flows and diffusion, and technologies of
governmentality, as well as the consumption and reception of popular culture and media pedagogies. Multidisciplinary readings will draw from education, cultural studies, gender studies, media studies, and other fields of inquiry.
EPE 773-401 meets Mondays from 7-9:30 PM in Room 122 Taylor Education Building. This course will be taught by Dr. Karen Tice.
