I finally got around to reading the fall issue of New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education: Popular Culture and Entertainment Media in Adult Education. This is a topic dear to my heart, for nearly 20 years ago, the topic of my dissertation at the University of Iowa was Patterns and Trends in the Portrayal of Adult College Students in American Films. I’m sure you recall that seminal work. For a while, I knew more about this subject than anyone else in the world, which is kind of like inventing your own game, keeping quiet about it, and then claiming that you have no equal at playing it.
Anyway, my favorite article in it also includes my favorite television show, The Simpsons. Adult learning, Gen X, Gen Y, The Simpsons—could it get any better? Only if we could somehow work in Family Guy and Futurama.
"Using The Simpsons to Teach Humanities with Gen X and Gen Y Adult Students"
Maxwell A. Fink and Deborah C. Foote
Anyway, my favorite article in it also includes my favorite television show, The Simpsons. Adult learning, Gen X, Gen Y, The Simpsons—could it get any better? Only if we could somehow work in Family Guy and Futurama.
"Using The Simpsons to Teach Humanities with Gen X and Gen Y Adult Students"
Maxwell A. Fink and Deborah C. Foote
Abstract
This chapter discusses how the animated show The Simpsons can be used successfully to present and critique various concepts normally found in traditional undergraduate Humanities courses.
You can purchase this issue or subscribe to the journal at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/116318717/issue
This chapter discusses how the animated show The Simpsons can be used successfully to present and critique various concepts normally found in traditional undergraduate Humanities courses.
You can purchase this issue or subscribe to the journal at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/116318717/issue
