Teaching towards Democracy with Postmodern and Popular Culture Texts

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Adventures in Adaptation: Confronting Texts in a Time of Standardization; Neo-Post-Urban-Noir Graphic Novels and Critical Literacy: The Hard Connection; Creating Critical Spaces for Young Activists; Teaching Students to Think Critically: Using Young Adult Literature in the 21st Century Classroom - The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963; Class on Fire: Using the Hunger Games Trilogy to Encourage Social Action; The Postmodern Picture Book: Reimagining Children's Author "ity" as Readers; A Source of Self: Exploring Identity and Discourse in Young Adult Novels as Meaningful Text; What Mainstream Centers Cannot Hold: Growing Critical Literacy with Dystopian Fiction; Exploring the Tensions between Narrative Imagination and Official Knowledge through the Life of Pi; "Clankers," "Darwinists," and Criticality: Encouraging Sociological Imagination vis-à-vis Historicity with the Steampunk Novel Leviathan; Science and Fiction: A Polemic on the Role of Imaginative Fiction in Civics and the Economy of Innovation; Enacting a Critical Pedagogy of Popular Culture at the Intersection of Student Writing, Popular Culture and Critical Literacy; Shadows of the Past: Historical Interpretation, Propaganda, and the Story of Ender Wiggin; Critical Hits & Critical Spaces: Roleplaying Games and Their Potential in Developing Critical Literacy and New Literacy Practices; About the Contributors.