Fandom as Classroom Practice - A Teaching Guide (Paperback)

Providing ways to engage students through their popular culture interests, this collection brings together several essays, across disciplines, to show how fan practices such as writing fan fiction, creating vids, communicating via Tumblr, and participating in film tourism can invite students to invest more of themselves into their education. Both scholarship and fandom encourage passionate engagement with texts-rather than passive consumption in isolation- and editor Katherine Anderson Howell and her contributors find that when students are encouraged to partake in a remix classroom that encourages their fan interests, they participate more in their education, are more critical of experts and authorities, and actively shape the discourse themselves. Creating this remix classroom requires thoughtfulness on the instructor's part, and so the chapters in this volume come from teachers who have carefully constructed such courses, including several invaluable appendices that provide examples of methodologies, course assignments, teaching practices, and classroom setup. Each chapter also includes student responses that offer a sense of what students gained from each course. The result is an exciting and entertaining new way to motivate students and teachers alike, and it is sure to be a popular reference guide for instructors teaching classes from high school to graduate levels.

General

Imprint:	University of Iowa Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2018
Editors:	Katherine Anderson Howell
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	188
ISBN-13:	978-1-60938-567-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching skills & techniques Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture
LSN:	1-60938-567-5
Barcode:	9781609385675

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