Denise Blum

author and editor of Pedagogy of Pop: Theoretical and Practical Strategies for Success

February 4, 2013

Denise Blum is an assistant professor in social foundations in the College of Education at OSU. She is an educational anthropologist. Her research interests include domestic issues on the politics and pedagogy of education; Cuban and Mexican education. In addition to articles on these topics, she has also written an ethnography about Cuban education, entitled Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values: Educating the New Socialist Citizen (The University of Texas Press, 2011).

Media competes with public schools in terms of student engagement and time. However, the two needn't be mutually exclusive. The Pedagogy of Pop: Theoretical and Practical Strategies for Success discusses a variety of strategies and approaches for using social and mass media as tools through which teachers might improve schooling.

While there is a vast body of literature in this field, editors Edward A. Janak and Denise Blum have created a text which differs in two substantive ways: scope and sequence. In terms of scope, this work is unique in two facets: first, it presents both theory and practice in one volume, bridging the two worlds; and second, it includes lessons from secondary and postsecondary classrooms, allowing teachers on all levels to learn from each other. In terms of sequence, The Pedagogy of Pop draws on lessons from both historical and contemporary practice.

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