TV as Curriculum Studies

Jordan Corson is a professor of education and an affiliated faculty member of holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University. His publications include Reconceptualizing Education for Newcomer Youth (Teachers College Press, 2023).Dani Friedrich is an associate professor of Curriculum at Teachers College, Columbia University. He has published widely at the intersections of curriculum studies, teacher education, and comparative and international education, and for the past decade has focused on pop culture as curriculum.

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction1 1979 – Reconceptualizing Curriculum as Much More Than a Technical Field: “Grange Hill” and William Pinar2 1980 – Diff’rent Social Classes, Diff’rent Curriculum: “Diff’rent Strokes” and Jean Anyon3 1981 – The Kids Aren’t Alright (with Dominant Ideology): “The Facts of Life” and Michael Apple4 1982 – “We Are a Powerful Bunch of Kids, You Know?”: “Fame” and Maxine Greene5 1983 – Where Does Radical Pedagogy Come From?: “Teachers Only” and Henry Giroux6 1984 – Beware the Divorced Mother!: “Kate & Allie” and Sue Middleton7 1985 – Lessons on Hard Work and Black Identity: “The Cosby Show” and Geneva Gay8 1986 – In Today’s Story … We Will Sell You More Toys: Saturday Morning Cartoons and David Flinders, Nel Noddings, & Stephen Thornton9 1987 – The Multicultural Rainbow in the Gritty Schoolyard: “21 Jump Street” and Christine Sleeter & Carl Grant10 1988 – “Sex, In the Hands of Public Educators, Was Not a Pretty Thing”: “The Wonder Years” and Michelle Fine11 1989 – Cheating Ourselves from Feeling Empowered: “Homeroom” and Elizabeth Ellsworth12 1990 – Family Matters (as Long as It Follows Eurocentric, Patriarchal Norms): “Family Matters” and Cameron McCarthy13 1991 – Sorta Like That Spike Lee’s Movie: “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” and Molefi Kete Asante14 1992 – Learner-Centered Curriculum and the Private Lives of Students: “The Simpsons” and Linda Darling-Hammond & Jon Snyder15 1993 – Embodied/Assumed/Expected Curriculum: “Boy Meets World” and Ted Aoki16 1994 – A Curriculum of Seeing and Being Seen: “My So-Called Life” and Sonia Nieto17 1995 – Critical Race Theory and the Power of Structural Analyses: “The Parent ‘Hood” and Gloria Ladson-Billings & William F. Tate, IV18 1996 – Beyond Other/Us: “Heartbreak High” and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco19 1997 – De/Tracking Ability as Popularity: “Daria” and Jeannie Oakes, Amy Stuart Wells, Makeba Jones, & Amanda Datnow20 1998 – Foreign in Wisconsin – Racial and Ethnic Erasures as Comedy: “That 70s Show” by very special guest star Roozbeh Shirazi21 1999 – Buffy, Queer Love, and Surviving High School: “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” and Dennis Sumara & Brent Davis22 2000 – Un/Becoming the Good Girl: “Freaks and Geeks” and Nancy Lesko23 2000 (Part b) – “No way I’m accepting this … insult.” Red Pedagogy and an Indigenous Pedagogical Imagination: “King of the Hill” and Sandy Grande24 2002 – Repetition and the Limits of Rational Pedagogies: “Boston Public” and Kevin Kumashiro25 2003 – Scenes of Battling Difficult Knowledges: “Clone High” and Alicia Pitt & Deborah Britzman26 2004 – Declassifying When Math Education Becomes Something Else Entirely: “Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide” and Thomas Popkewitz27 2005 – “School Is for Suckas”: Reflecting on “The Boondocks” and the Curriculum of Hip Hop Culture by very special guest star Denise Taliaferro Baszile28 2006 – Juking the Stats – High-Stakes Testing, Curriculum: “The Wire”, by very special guest star Wayne Au29 2007 – “Y’all Ready for Some Real School?”: “Class of 3000” and H. Samy Alim30 2008 – Who Is Stuck with the Alien Card?: “Aliens in America” and Nina Asher31 2009 – “You’re a Lima Loser and You Always Will Be!” – Curriculum of Placelessness in William McKinley High School’s Glee Club: “Glee” by very special guest star Rachel Talbert32 2010 – A Curriculum of America – Which Is Us: “America – The Story of Us” and Thea Abu El-Haj33 2011 – Measuring Up to Normal: “South Park” and Zeus Leonardo & Alicia Broderick34 2012 – Bully Moves – Cyberbullying and Deleuzian Affect: “Rita” and Jette Kofoed & Jessica Ringrose35 2013 – Simulating One-Dimensional Conceptions of Disability: “Switched at Birth” and Subini Ancy Annamma, David Connor, & Beth Ferri36 2014 – Unanswered Readings, Anticolonial Possibilities: “Parenthood” and Leigh Patel37 2015 – How to Get Away from the Prison of the Teacher Self: “How to Get Away with Murder” by very special guest star Esther Ohito38 2016 – Affective School Leadership: “Vice Principals” and Alyssa Niccolini39 2017 – Queering the Script: “American Vandal” and Harper Keenan”40 2018 – The Hybrid Adventures of Sabrina and Strom: “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” by very special guest star Kathryn Strom41 2019 – “Everyone Seems Happy … and Queer!” – Sex Education and Queer(ed) Curricula of Consent: “Sex Education” with very special guest star Boni WozolekEpilogue – 2020 and Beyond: Janet Miller, “Abbott Elementary”, and UsIndex