Popular culture and critical pedagogy : reading, constructing, connecting / edited by Toby Daspit and John A. Weaver.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction. Critical pedagogy, popular culture and the creation of meaning / John A. Weaver and Toby Daspit. Section one: Critical pedagogy as multiple readings. Rethinking Joe : exploring the borders of Lean on me / Penny Smith -- Teachers reading teachers : using popular culture to reposition the perspective of critical pedagogy in teacher education / Donald E. Guenther and David M. Dees -- School is hell : learning with (and from) The Simpsons / Mary E. Reeves -- Cyborg selves : Saturday morning magic and magical morality / Peter M. Appelbaum -- Teachers and popular culture communication : notes toward an alternative theory of teachers' non-appropriation of instructional research / Jason Earle -- When theory bumps into reality : the form and function of the popular culture of teaching / Aimee Howley and Linda Spatig. Section two: Popular culture as critical pedagogy. Rap pedagogies : "bring(ing) the noise" of "knowledge born on the microphone" to radical education / Toby Daspit -- Outlaw women writers, (un)popular culture, and critical pedagogy / Dianne Smith -- Popular culture and higher education : using aesthetics and seminars to reconceptualize curriculum / Patrick Slattery