Mariefaye M. Divino II-HC Prof. Gerry Areta “The Use of Pop Culture in Education” Popular culture, unlike how it is usually viewed by many people, is not that easy to define because until now, its definition is still emerging and changing ever since. But through the lecture facilitated by some of PNU’s well-known writers, alumni, and professors, we were enlightened in a way on how we may perceive popular culture. The PNU Mafia that was presented in the most recent celebration of the Faculty of Arts and Languages Week paved way to explain popular culture’s influence in education, its need for integration in our education, and its relevance to what we have now in our curriculum. To start with, I want to define what popular culture is …show more content…
The influences of popular culture have impacted a lot of people ever since and because popular culture is in the present time; we have to cope with …show more content…
Because school is the dominant factor that affects the society for most of the aspects of the foundation of our knowledge and experiences that builds our critical thinking and principles, which is at the same time has the responsibility to guide our way of thinking for our future endeavors, it is righteous for these institutions to do something about it. I believe that through its integration in the education curriculum, teachers will be able to help their students critique, analyze, and evaluate the uses and effects of popular culture in our society as well as in our interpersonal perspective. Because as Peter Brown (2010) puts it, young learners above all have to be taught that, no matter what they’re studying – be it a blockbuster film, a Sims expansion pack, or an academic textbook – they need to scrutinize the facts as they’re presented and ask the right questions. Therefore, the integration of popular culture into education is their right so that it will help them weigh the importance it has for us and help them learn from it as well. In the end, the role and importance of popular culture plays a good part in the way we live today. Therefore, we have to cope with it and we have to learn from it so that we will not be