Critical Pedagogy and Visual Culture Art Education in a Cosplay-Based Curriculum

Although cosplay may be defined simply as the act of dressing up as a popular culture character, this definition fails to convey the criticality, identity exploration, and craft involved. Critical pedagogy and visual culture art education can together form the bases of a cosplay curriculum designed...

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Main Author:	Connor Dyer
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Organization for Transformative Works 2021-03-01
Series:	Transformative Works and Cultures
Subjects:	costuming craft fandom popular culture studio art
Online Access:	https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/1987/2661

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title	Critical Pedagogy and Visual Culture Art Education in a Cosplay-Based Curriculum
title_short	Critical Pedagogy and Visual Culture Art Education in a Cosplay-Based Curriculum
title_full	Critical Pedagogy and Visual Culture Art Education in a Cosplay-Based Curriculum
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description	Although cosplay may be defined simply as the act of dressing up as a popular culture character, this definition fails to convey the criticality, identity exploration, and craft involved. Critical pedagogy and visual culture art education can together form the bases of a cosplay curriculum designed to promote critical thinking about interaction with popular culture and fandom, to explore the construction of identity, and to use cosplay as a form of artistic practice.
topic	costuming craft fandom popular culture studio art
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Critical Pedagogy and Visual Culture Art Education in a Cosplay-Based Curriculum

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