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“Are You Here to Tell a Story?”

The Pedagogies of Reality Television

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Through a Distorted Lens

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Reality television shows, with their claims to represent real-life experiences, have a bad reputation. They are accused of being scripted and therefore not really real, of negatively impacting the business of television because they cost less to produce than other shows, and of depicting extreme examples of human behavior. Since all texts, whatever their truth-claims, are grounded in specific ideologies, educational researchers must pay attention to how these films and television shows are constructed and for what purposes.

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  1. School of Education, Louisiana State University, USA

    Jacqueline Bach

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Bach, J. (2017). “Are You Here to Tell a Story?”. In: Nicosia, L.M., Goldstein, R.A. (eds) Through a Distorted Lens. Constructing Knowledge: Curriculum Studies in Action. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-017-2_8

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