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Using "The Simpsons" to Teach Humanities with Gen X and Gen Y Adult Students
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Fink, Maxwell A.; Foote, Deborah C. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2007
Many educators lament the UNESCO study showing that by the time the average teen graduates from high school he or she has spent more than fifteen thousand hours watching television and only eleven thousand in the classroom (Gorebel, 1998). Rather than regretting this "condition," colleges, universities, and educators of adults and children should…
Descriptors: Humanities Instruction, Adult Students, Popular Culture, Mass Media Effects