Not the nine o'clock service: Using children's culture |
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| Authors: | Lucy Hadfield Rosalind Edwards Melanie Mauthner |
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| Institution: | 1. The Open University , UK l.s.hadfield@open.ac.uk;3. Families &4. Social Capital ESRC Research Group;5. The Open University , UK |
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| Abstract: | This paper discusses current thinking and practice about the use of popular culture in the primary school to teach literacy. It attempts to question the methods that attempt to galvanise children's interest in popular texts to teach the current literacy curriculum. It argues that there is an incompatibility between the pleasures and practices of the world of popular culture and the traditional environment and curricula of school. The paper argues that instead of ‘using’ children's culture to teach the literacy curriculum in school, children's vibrant, sophisticated and valuable culture needs to be embedded within it. |
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| Keywords: | outdoor learning pedagogy learning outside the classroom affective education values performativity |
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