This book offers faculty teaching in public administration and public affairs programs a playbook for using popular culture as a pedagogical tool in the classroom.
This book offers faculty teaching in public administration and public affairs programs a playbook for using popular culture as a pedagogical tool in the classroom.
Authors Erin L. Borry and Peter A. Jones build a pedagogical framework, detailing the richness and range of media through which pop culture can be accessed, and demonstrate how best to integrate different forms of pop culture to achieve various learning goals. The breadth of content available and practical applicability to the public administration degree offers many opportunities to incorporate pop culture into the curriculum, including in introductory courses on public administration and public service, as well as more advanced budgeting, statistics, ethics, social equity, and open government courses, to name a few. This book offers some examples of pop culture that instructors can readily adapt for use in their own courses, as well as sample assignments and various types of group work, including simulations.
Teaching Public Administration with Pop Culture will be of enormous benefit to instructors of public affairs undergraduate and graduate students, as well as to those teaching in the areas of political science, civics, social studies, and government in higher and K-12 education settings.
1. Introduction Part I: Pedagogy 2. Pop Culture as Pedagogy
3. Choosing Pop Culture for the Classroom Part II: Traditional Pop Culture 4. Television
5. Documentaries and Docuseries
6. Movies
7. Podcasts Part III: Nontraditional Pop Culture 8. Social Media
9. Pop Culture Potpourri Part IV: Incorporating Pop Culture in Large-Scale Activities 10. Simulations and Cases
11. Conclusion
Erin L. Borry (she/her) is an associate professor and graduate program director in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her research interests include rules, red tape, social equity, and public administration in pop culture. She has published in journals such as Public Administration Review, Public Administration, International Public Management Journal, Public Integrity, Journal of Public Affairs Education, and American Review of Public Administration, among others.
Peter A. Jones (he/him) is an associate professor in the department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He researches the public budgeting processes and financial management practices of local and state governments, school districts, and court systems. His research work has been published in the Policy Studies Journal, American Review of Public Administration, International Journal of Public Administration, International Journal of Public Sector Management, and Journal of Public Affairs Education, among others.
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