About the Pop Pedagogies Initiative
Popular culture is one of the most powerful and pervasive forms of cultural production, capable of both reflecting and driving social and political change. However, it often remains on the fringes of academic inquiry. With the Pop Pedagogies Initiative, the Pop Culture Cluster aims to bring popular culture into the centre of scholarly and pedagogical work, exploring its potential to illuminate and catalyze social transformation while developing critical thinking and media literacy skills. The Pop Pedagogies Award Program will launch in fall 2024, the Pop Pedagogies Archive will go live in January 2025, and the Pop Pedagogies Symposium will take place in March 2026.
Pop Pedagogies Award
The Popular Media for Social Change Research Excellence Cluster is excited to announce the launch of the Pop Pedagogies Award Program for the 2024-2025 academic year. This program will provide up to $1,500 CAD to support UBC community members in the development of innovative lesson plans, modules, or units that meaningfully integrate popular media (imagined broadly) into teaching and learning. Recipients will be awarded in each of the next two years, with the expectation that awardees contribute their materials to the Pop Pedagogies Lesson Plan Archive and present their work at the 2026 Pop Pedagogies Symposium at UBC.
Pop Pedagogies Symposium
More information to be announced.