Summary Of Gerald Graff Hidden Intellectualism
Kristeena Gonzalez Gonzalez 1
Smith
Eng. - 50
September 28, 2013
Pop Culture in Academics In Gerald Graff’s “Hidden Intellectualism,” Graff argues that schools should encourage students to think critically, read, and write about areas of personal interest such as cars, fashion, or music but as long as they do so in an intellectually way. I happen to agree with Graff and his perspective for many different reasons. I personally believe that students should be giving the opportunity to engage intellectually with pop cultural topics that interest them and get to apply their "street smarts" to their academic work. Teenagers can also relate to what 's going on in their own …show more content…
Music actually improves communication between the right and left sides of the brain, allowing you to gain better comprehension and memorization skills which develop your brain to a higher level. Music has so much to do with metaphors and understanding lyrics and truly understanding the meaning of a song. It even helps to improve reading and comprehensive skills. Take Tupac Shakur for instance, his rap music has such meaningful metaphors which should be used in the classroom because they can truly help teenagers understand the meaning of a metaphor and students will actually be interested in the topic. Music is such a complex language that even incorporates mathematics, science, history, physical education, coordination, and even mental ability. Most teenagers find hip hop artist like Tupac interesting because they can relate to Tupac 's music about daily life struggles about gangs, drugs and growing up in the "ghetto". Since teenagers go through these struggles we should help give them something to relate to so they can know the real world isn 't perfect and a lot of people can be going through the same struggles as …show more content…
That schools are made for learning academics and nothing else, like pop culture, should influence anything not academic. An argument could be that pop culture is a bad influence and can send the wrong message to teenagers. For instance that sports can send the message of promoting violence and that teenagers should stick to their own personal friends and not communicate with other groups of people. It can cause tension in the classrooms over debates because not everyone has the same opinion about a certain team. Or the simple fact that not everyone is interested in sports or have knowledge of sports and they don 't want teenagers to feel as if they don 't fit
Smith
Eng. - 50
September 28, 2013
Pop Culture in Academics In Gerald Graff’s “Hidden Intellectualism,” Graff argues that schools should encourage students to think critically, read, and write about areas of personal interest such as cars, fashion, or music but as long as they do so in an intellectually way. I happen to agree with Graff and his perspective for many different reasons. I personally believe that students should be giving the opportunity to engage intellectually with pop cultural topics that interest them and get to apply their "street smarts" to their academic work. Teenagers can also relate to what 's going on in their own …show more content…
Music actually improves communication between the right and left sides of the brain, allowing you to gain better comprehension and memorization skills which develop your brain to a higher level. Music has so much to do with metaphors and understanding lyrics and truly understanding the meaning of a song. It even helps to improve reading and comprehensive skills. Take Tupac Shakur for instance, his rap music has such meaningful metaphors which should be used in the classroom because they can truly help teenagers understand the meaning of a metaphor and students will actually be interested in the topic. Music is such a complex language that even incorporates mathematics, science, history, physical education, coordination, and even mental ability. Most teenagers find hip hop artist like Tupac interesting because they can relate to Tupac 's music about daily life struggles about gangs, drugs and growing up in the "ghetto". Since teenagers go through these struggles we should help give them something to relate to so they can know the real world isn 't perfect and a lot of people can be going through the same struggles as …show more content…
That schools are made for learning academics and nothing else, like pop culture, should influence anything not academic. An argument could be that pop culture is a bad influence and can send the wrong message to teenagers. For instance that sports can send the message of promoting violence and that teenagers should stick to their own personal friends and not communicate with other groups of people. It can cause tension in the classrooms over debates because not everyone has the same opinion about a certain team. Or the simple fact that not everyone is interested in sports or have knowledge of sports and they don 't want teenagers to feel as if they don 't fit