Pop Pedagogy and Adolescence

Pop pedagogy is an approach used for analysing media content and devising new reading keys to develop a critical spirit and to provide tools, which help defusing the manipulation operated by current forms of communication. Pop pedagogy draws on art, sociology, psychoanalysis, linguistics, and semiotics. It is a transdisciplinary pedagogy. Madonna owes a great part of her success to her name: in America, researchers tried to explain how “the game of the name” was the way Madonna has always attracted public attention, calling herself Madonna (after her mother, Madonna, who died when Madonna was five), but posing as a “whore”. The contrast is pleasant, it creates discussion, it makes what is uncanny plausible.