Femina Cartoonica: Gender Dimension of Disney Themes as a Pedagogy of Popular Culture

Lejla Mušić^1,

¹Department of Sociology, Faculty of Political Sciences Sarajevo, Sarajevo University, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cite this paper

Lejla Mušić. Femina Cartoonica: Gender Dimension of Disney Themes as a Pedagogy of Popular Culture. American Journal of Educational Research. 2021; 9(8):518-521. doi: 10.12691/EDUCATION-9-8-8

Abstract

Disney project, as an all enhancing pedagogical project, offers interactive methods of learning for preschool children, and multidisciplinary, trans disciplinary, multicultural teaching methods on all levels of schooling, involving advanced levels of Gender studies inside Social studies disciplines, on the upper educational levels.

Keywords

multicultural, Disney Pedagogy, Disney Heroes, Disney Heroines, Femina Cartoonica

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