Children’s Entertainment
Giroux, Henry. “Disney and the Politics of Public Culture.” The Mouse That Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. 17-61. [Photocopy]
Baker-Sperry, Lori. “The Production of Meaning through Peer Interaction: Children and Walt Disney’s Cinderella.” Sex Roles 56 (2007): 717-727. [UTL] http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/111278
Chyng Feng Sun and Scharrer, Erica. “Staying True to Disney: College Students’ Resistance to the Criticism of The Little Mermaid.” The Communication Review 7 (2004): 35-55. [UTL] http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/111279
Dyson, A. H. 2003. "Welcome to the jam": Popular culture, school literacy, and the making of childhoods. Harvard Educational Review, 73(3), 328-361. [UTL] http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/10942
Video: Mickey Mouse Monopoly (in-class)
July 27th, 2011 ***Assignment 1 due*** (No Class: Writing & Research day)
Media Representations of Teaching
Bulman, Robert C. 2002. “Teachers in the ‘Hood: Hollywood’s Middle Class Fantasies.” The Urban Review 34.3 (September 2002): 251-276. [UTL] http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/111280
Smith, Penny. “Rethinking Joe: Exploring the Borders of Lean on Me.” Popular Culture and Critical Pedagogy: Reading, Constructing, Connecting. Ed. Toby Daspit and John A. Weaver. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000. 3-31. [UTL] http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/111289
Freedman, Debra. “Acceptance and Alignment, Misconception and Inexperience: Preservice Teachers, Representations of Students, and Media Culture” Cultural Studies – Critical Methodologies 3 (1) 2003 [UTL]. http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/111281
Video: Freedom Writers (2007)
