Article: Toward a Playful Pedagogy: Popular Culture and the Pleasures of Transgression

In defining popular culture as inherently pleasurable, including the pleasures of transgression, the author argues that while art teachers now critique popular visual culture for its often-dubious ideologies, they are yet to come to terms with its transgressive pleasures. Teachers fail to engage with its carnivalesque, subversive qualities because they conflict with the rationality upon which schools are founded. Transgression involves challenging teachers' authority, and its oftentimes-reactionary nature raises serious moral dilemmas. However, unless the transgressive nature of popular culture is acknowledged, critique will not engage with students' affective investments and will be ...

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