(Re)learning about Learning: Using Cases from Popular Media to Extend and Complicate Our Understandings of What It Means to Learn and Teach

Authors

Kelli Bippert, University of Texas at San AntonioFollow
Dennis Davis, University of Texas at San AntonioFollow
Margaret Rose Hilburn, University of Texas at San AntonioFollow
Jennifer D. Hooper, University of Texas at San AntonioFollow
Deepti Kharod, University of Texas at San AntonioFollow
Cinthia Rodriguez, University of Texas at San AntonioFollow
Rebecca Stortz, University of Texas at San AntonioFollow

Abstract

This article utilizes sociocultural and socio-constructivist learning theories to analyze incidents of learning, and by extension teaching, in six different popular media selections. The authors describe their shared theoretical framework and the nature of the original analyses, which were completed as part of a doctoral course assignment. Each of the six excerpts is then described and discussed employing unique theoretical perspectives. The use of popular culture as the context for examining learning and teaching provides a space untethered from traditional notions of schooling through which typically accepted assumptions about pedagogy are revealed, re-examined, and reframed.

Recommended Citation

Bippert, Kelli; Davis, Dennis; Hilburn, Margaret Rose; Hooper, Jennifer D.; Kharod, Deepti; Rodriguez, Cinthia; and Stortz, Rebecca (2016) "(Re)learning about Learning: Using Cases from Popular Media to Extend and Complicate Our Understandings of What It Means to Learn and Teach," Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy: Vol. 3: Iss. 1, Article 2.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dialogue/vol3/iss1/2