Between Borders:

Pedagogy and the Politics

of Cultural Studies
Eyla Santiago
MWWP 2014
June 20,2014
Between Borders
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Units
Racism, Democracy, and the Pedagogy of
Representation.
Desire, Audience, and the Politics of
Cultural Memory
Insurgent Multiculturalism and the
Journey into Difference
Nationalism, Post-colonialism, and the
Border Intellectual
Chapter 2: Intellectuals, Power and
Quality Television
by Ava Collins
Technology, Literacy, and Pedagogy: Why
Now?
The technological revolution that has
encompassed students and teachers lives,
both inside and outside the educational
institutions where they meet, embodied in the
shift of the technology of culture from print to
electronic media(Collins,57).


We question the traditional relations of
information, knowledge and power in the
classroom (Collins, 56).
Why? What is wrong with the traditional
classroom?

Popular culture
New generation
It has become central to pedagogical debates
Technological revolution
Print vs. electronic media
TV
Personal computers
Network
Fax
Video games
phones
How has this changed the nature and function of popular
culture?


Are this new sources and ways of
acquiring knowledge reliable or
trustworthiness?
The dynamic of interaction among
students, teachers, and texts has been
altered within the classroom itself
(Collins, 58).
What would happen if you as educator refuse
to acknowledge popular culture as a significant
basis of knowledge/learning process?

Giving Value to Texts
Who gives value to texts?
Through generations society have accept
that teacher knows best, as well as what
is best (Collins, 59).
Are or are not students making
distinctions between educational and
popular culture?
Shakespeare vs. Bugs Bunny
How I Met Your Mother vs. History Channel
Which you believe is educational
and which is popular?
Americas Funniest Home Videos
Discovery Channel
History Channel
Family Guy
The Simpsons
The Fosters
Orange is the New Black
Breaking Bad
Vampire Diaries
Greys Anatomy
House
The Pursuit of Happiness
Schlindlers List
How should teachers response towards
TV?
Who or how can evaluate TV texts?

Chapter 6: Be like Mike? Michael Jordan
and the Pedagogy of Desire
by Michael Eric Dyson
Why would kids want to be like
Mike?
Considered as an icon of race-
transcending (Dyson, 119)
Line between
private and public school
Personality and celebrity
Substance and symbol
Individual and team
White and black


There have existed venerable tradition of
black sports such as the Negro Baseball
Leagues(Dyson, 120).
Example: movie, 42

Basketball was considered a sport for black
people (Dyson, 124).
White people cant jump

Jordan have been criticized by black critics as
not being black enough.
Jordan in fact has being able to enable visions of
human experience to transcend race (Dyson, 124).

Jordan, a public pedagogue, a figure of
estimable public moral authority whose
career educates us about the convergence
of productive and disenabling forms of
knowledge, desire, interest, consumption,
and culture in three sphere: the culture of
athletics (Dyson, 119).
Michael Jordan represents and leads to a
pedagogy of desire.
Is this pedagogy for our classrooms?
How could we develop a pedagogy of desire in
writing or language?
How could students overcome their border in
their target language?

Works Cited
Collins, Ana. Intellectuals, Power and Quality
Television. Between Borders. Henry
Giroux and Peter McLaren. New York:
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-
Publication, 1994. 56-73Print.
Dyson, Michael Eric. Be Like Mike? Michael
Jordan and the Pedagogy of Desire.
Between Borders. Henry Giroux and
Peter McLaren. New York: Library of
Congress Cataloging-in-Publication,
1994. 119-126.Print.