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The Teacher’s Dream

Performances of Pedagogical Desire and Memorial (Re)Construction In Glee

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When looking at the everyday influence of television, I begin from an assumption that narratives of popular culture can potentially be used in the classroom and daily life to promote “critical and empowering pedagogical encounter[s]” (Giroux and imon 1989, 25) while also supporting the schemes we invent for interpreting andenunciating our own memories and life stories.

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Lewkowich, D. (2013). The Teacher’s Dream. In: Strong-Wilson, T., Mitchell, C., Susann, A., Pithouse-Morgan, K. (eds) Productive Remembering and Social Agency. Transgressions. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-347-8_12

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