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Article: Teachers' full knowledge of students' popular culture and the integration of aspects of that culture in literacy instruction.
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- Education
- Article date:
- June 22, 2002
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As we have entered the 21st century with massive presence of popular culture, we have continually advanced our understandings of literacy and of preparing all students to become literate. In the last decade of the 20th century, one line of research has reexamined the notions of literacy and of students' outside school literacy experiences within the context of popular culture (Alvermann & Hagood, 2000; Alvermann, Moon, & Hagood, 1999; Brooks, 1998; Buckingham, 1993; Finder, 1996, 1997: Worthy, 1998). Popular culture may include, but not be limited to, popular music, books and magazines, movies, TV shows, Internet, computer/video games, audio recordings, and commercial ...