A Qualitative study towards infusing popular culture on teaching practice in classroom

Abstract

The aim of this study was to define the impact of infusing popular culture’s elements such as comics, TV series, popular music etc. on teaching practice in classroom in Turkey. Popular culture plays an important role in education. This study reveals that teachers often use popular culture that plays an important role in the lives of children in the classroom. Teachers attempt to integrate popular culture into the lessons in many different ways consciously or spontanesly. Popular culture is reflected in the, methods, and educational activities and drills in daily lesson plans. Popular culture is included sometimes as a reinforcing unit for some other units in lesson plans. Teachers noticed that they had to integrate popular culture into the teaching context because it allowed them to make connections between real life and school thus making daily classroom implementations better. Although teachers are against popular culture, they all agree that it is a reality for schooling and sometimes they use it reluctantly.