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In this chapter, we discuss a project exploring how popular culture functions pedagogically among adult audiences about social policy debates in Western Canada. Contrary to the view of pop culture as merely trivial and mindless, we believe that it can extend opportunities for reflection and learning of self and others.
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Jubas, K., Johnston, D., Chiang, A. (2017). Healthy Democracy. 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_4
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