Publisher: Association for Asian Studies (Ann Arbor, MI)
Contents:
Shamoon, Deborah & McMorran, Chris. Introduction (pp. 1-18)
PART I. The Big Picture: On Curriculum Design
- McLaren, Sally, & Spies, Alwyn. Risk and potential: Establishing critical pedagogy in Japanese popular culture courses (pp. 19-44).
- Armour, William S., & Iida, Sumiko. Teaching Japanese popular culture at an Australian university: Insights from a literacies pedagogy perspective (pp. 45-60).
- Wagner, Cosima. Goethe goes Cool Japan: Teaching popular culture through research-oriented learning at a German university (pp. 61-76).
PART II. In the Media Studies Classroom: Teaching About Popular Culture
- Sugawa-Shimada, Akiko. Contested classrooms: Reconstructions of “Japaneseness” through anime (pp. 79-101).
- Bardsley, Jan. Teaching fashion as Japanese popular culture (pp. 101-135).
PART III. Using Popular Culture in Teaching
- King, Melanie. Confessions of an anime and manga ignoramus: Approaches to Japanese popular culture for the K-12 classroom (pp. 137-160).
- Shamoon, Deborah. Co-teaching and foreign language across the curriculum: Using Japanese popular culture (pp. 161-186).
- Yamada, Marc. Using Japanese television media in content-based language learning (pp. 187-210).
- Dorsey, James. Performing gender in the prisonhouse of a (foreign) language: Blending Japanese language learning and cultural studies (pp. 211-230).
- Seaton, Philip. Pop(ular) culture in the Japanese history classroom (pp. 231-256).
McMorran, Chris. Conclusion: The online future(s) of teaching Japanese popular culture (pp. 257-282).
Reviews:
Hardy Bernal, Kathryn A. Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture, 2(1), 119-122.