From Movie Theaters to History Class-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

From Movie Theaters to History Class

Published:2022-05-13 Issue: Volume: Page:41-55
ISSN:2329-5929
Container-title:Advances in Early Childhood and K-12 Education
language:
Short-container-title:

Author:

Darbonne August J.¹

Affiliation:

1. Xavier University of Louisiana, USA

Abstract

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has found much success among comic fans and novices alike. Bringing comic book storylines to the big screen has resulted in the public becoming familiar with once obscure characters and plots. This chapter discusses the use of Captain America: Civil War as a form of popular media to teach middle school students about the United States Civil War. Drawing parallels between historical events and the movie's plot resulted in an increase in students' understanding of the concepts of the United States Civil War and allowed students to connect their learning to their lived experiences and develop agency over their own learning. Through this experiment, the researcher developed a lesson plan for teaching the United States Civil War using popular media, which can also be duplicated for use with other historical events.

Publisher

IGI Global

Reference40 articles.

1. Popular Culture in the Classroom

2. Teaching reasoning to Hawaiian children: Finding a culturally appropriate solution;K.Au;Culture and the bilingual classroom: Studies in classroom ethnography,1981

3. AufderheideP.FirestoneC. (1993). Media literacy: A report of the national conference on media literacy. Communications and Society Program, Aspen Institute.

4. Toward a conceptual framework of culturally relevant pedagogy: An overview of the conceptual and theoretical literature.;S.Brown-Jeffy;Teacher Education Quarterly,2011

5. Buenger, W. (1995). Secession convention. Retrieved December 2021, from https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/secession-convention