Popular Culture and Critical Pedagogy

Toby Daspit, the Assistant Professor Formerly Known as "Sparky," teaches secondary education and curriculum courses in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Leadership at Western Michigan University. He is the co-author, with Pamela Dean and Petra Munro, of TalkingGumbo: A Teacher's Guide to Using Oral History in theClassroom. Although transforming Buffy the VampireSlayer, rap/rock music, and collage art into educational theories is a full-time job, he still finds the energy to write essays on popular cultural studies and alternative forms of curriculum theorizing, and to fish in the swamps of Louisiana Educated at the University of Pittsburgh and in the wasteland of TV land, John A. Weaver is the author of (Re-) Thinking Academic Politics in (Re-)unifiedGermany and the United States (RoutledgeFalmer) and co-edited with Marla Morris and Peter Appelbaum (Post)Modern Science (Education) and Difficulty Memories: Talkin a Post-Holocaust Era. He also has written on Rap, TheSimpsons, information technology, the Post-Human condition, and Higher Educational reform. When he is not writing and reading, he is furthering his education at the movies or in front of the television.

"From film to cartoons, cyborgs to pedagogues, rap to reading and teaching, this collection is smart, savvy, and essential to those students and scholars finding their way through cultural studies." -- William F. Pinar, St. Bernard Parish Alumni Endowed Professor, Louisiana State University"Astonishing! This collection of essays will be of interest to scholars and students who grapple with the complicated intersections of curriculum studies, popular cultural texts, critical pedagogy, hermeneutics, postmodernity and identity formation." -- Marla Morris, The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing (JCT)

• 1. Nuclear Shape 2. Liquid Drop Models 3. Charge Density Asymmetry and Deformation Dependence of Macroscopic Energies 4. Particular Systems and Configurations 5. Deformed Shell Models 6. Shell and Pairing Corrections 7. Rotating Nuclei 8. Applied Macroscopic-Microscopic Method 9. Predictive Properties of Atomic Mass Models- Their Relationship to Nuclear Decay Modes by Spontaneous Charged-Particle Emission