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POPULAR CULTURE TAUGHT ME WHO TO BE... OR DID IT ?

  • Ashley Armstrong
  • Sep 22, 2015
  • 1 min read

I can remember being as young as two years old and although I wanted to play with hot wheel cars and hockey I was always given Barbie dolls and pink dresses at Christmas and for my birthday so inevitably I grew to like Barbies and learned to love the color pink. It seems like yesterday when I was watching Cinderella, Snow White and the Little Mermaid and dreaming of someday growing up and getting married in a beautiful white ball gown to my prince charming where we would go on to like happily ever after. Popular culture has, over the course of my life taught me how I was expected to think and act but more significantly, popular culture taught me how society expected me to grow up in order to fit a “supposed” ideal. At the young age of four and even at eighteen years of age I was completely oblivious to the ways in which popular culture influenced my beliefs, values and actions and it was not until I was twenty four years old that I began to question why it was a young child would dream of being married in a white ball gown without even knowing what marriage was that I started to critically analyze the way popular culture is used as a means of teaching people of all different ages how to think and act. However, this revelation really made me consider the multiplicity of ways in which popular culture can be used in the classroom as a means of engaging and teaching our students what we want them to learn. The possibilities are endless!!


 
 
 

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