Popular Culture Meets the Common Core in a Pedagogical Third Space: Effective Literacy Learning

• In Event: 35.082 - Roundtable Session 14
  In Roundtable Session: 35.082-25 - Action Research and Literacy Development

Abstract

In the current era of education, promoting the literacy skills needed for college and career require learning experiences that are relevant, meaningful, and rigorous for all students. This paper offers a description of a literacy curriculum situated in pedagogical third space; a hybrid place for students’ popular culture funds of knowledge to co-mingle with school based, academic literacies. This action research systematically studied and documented students’ and their teacher's decisions, reactions, and reflections to an English Language Arts/popular culture integrated curriculum that was co-constructed. Collected over an eight-month period, data was analyzed using the constant comparative method. The results showed students experienced significant gains in their attainment of literacy skills and transformation of teacher practice.

Author

• Stephanie M Buelow, University of Hawaii - Manoa