Radical Pedagogy in Teaching American Popular Culture Satoshi Tsukamoto Aichi University Radical Pedagogy in Teaching American Popular Culture 2019/5/6

Today’s Agenda Show three ways of understanding the texts in the media. Show how to interpret a movie 2019/5/6

Dominant Reading Viewers accept the dominant ideology in a movie Viewers feel pleasure. 2019/5/6

Negotiated Reading Viewers accept the dominant ideology, but they disagree to a specific message. Pleasure to a certain degree Resistance 2019/5/6

Oppositional Reading In direct opposition with the dominant ideology in a movie. Annoyance Rejection 2019/5/6

Dangerous Minds Popular Hollywood movie in 1995 Michelle Pfeiffer as a high school teacher in an inner city 2019/5/6

First Day LouAnne Johnson is depicted as: Innocent Decent Literate Orderly 2019/5/6

First Day Minority students are depicted as: Delinquent Absurd Illiterate Chaotic 2019/5/6

Question What is the effect of depicting the teacher and the students in this way? Perpetuate the stereotypes of a white female teacher and black and Hispanic students 2019/5/6

Second Day LouAnne Johnson was: Tough Trying to control the students Thinking that these students could not study without rewards 2019/5/6

Question Why did Ms. Johnson use these methods? She thought that fear and danger were the only emotion that these students could recognize. 2019/5/6

Conclusion Encourage students to critically understand the texts in a movie 2019/5/6