Representing "u"
Subtitle: popular culture, media, and higher education
By: Pauline J. Reynolds
Series: ASHE higher education report -- v. 40, no. 4; ASHE higher education report -- v. 40, no. 4.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2014
Place of publication: San Francisco, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9781118966235
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Higher Education; Mass media and education
Description: From the magazines and newspapers of the mid-1800s to movies and apps of the twenty-first century, popular culture and media in the United States provide prolific representations of higher education. This report positions artifacts of popular culture as pedagogic texts able to (mis)educate viewers and consumers regarding the purpose, values, and people of higher education. The text: discusses scholarly literature across disciplines; examines a diverse array of cross-media artifacts; reveals pedagogical messages embedded in popular culture texts to prompt thinking about the multiple ways higher education is represented to society through the media.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-136) and index.
Table of contents: title: Representing "u" : popular higher education; title: Once upon a "u" : a brief historical examination of popular higher education; title: Being "u" : the setting of higher education; title: Running "u" : administrators in popular culture; title: Professing "u" : faculty in popular culture; title: Learning from "u" : college students in popular culture; title: (Re)educating "U" : learning from popular culture.