1. Radical Pedagogy in Teaching American Popular Culture
Satoshi Tsukamoto
Aichi University
Radical Pedagogy in Teaching American Popular Culture
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2. Today’s Agenda Show three ways of understanding the texts
in the media.
Show how to interpret a movie
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3. Dominant Reading Viewers accept the dominant ideology in a movie
Viewers feel pleasure.
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4. Negotiated Reading
Viewers accept the dominant ideology, but they disagree to a specific message.
Pleasure to a certain degree
Resistance
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5. Oppositional Reading
In direct opposition with the dominant ideology in a movie.
Annoyance
Rejection
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6. Dangerous Minds Popular Hollywood movie in 1995
Michelle Pfeiffer as a high school teacher in an inner city
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7. First Day LouAnne Johnson is depicted as: Innocent Decent Literate
Orderly
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8. First Day Minority students are depicted as: Delinquent Absurd
Illiterate
Chaotic
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9. 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
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10. Second Day LouAnne Johnson was: Tough Trying to control the students
Thinking that these students could not study without rewards
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11. Question Why did Ms. Johnson use these methods?
She thought that fear and danger were the only emotion that these students could recognize.
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12. Conclusion
Encourage students to critically understand the texts in a movie
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