"Grounded in the field of adult education, this international compilation offers a range of critical perspectives on popular culture as a form of pedagogy. Its fundamental premise is that adults learn in multiple ways, including through their consumption of fiction. As scholars have asserted for decades, people are not passive consumers of media; rather, we (re)make our own meanings as we accept, resist, and challenge cultural representations.

Introduction: Approaching Popular Culture as Pedagogy; Doctor Who Fandom, Critical Engagement, and Transmedia Storytelling: The Public Pedagogy of the Doctor; Learning How to Build Community without Following the Instructions: Finding Pieces of Resistance in The Lego Movie; Teachers on Film: Changing Representations of Teaching in Popular Cinema from Mr. Chips to Jamie Fitzpatrick; Discourse Analysis of Adult and Workplace Learning in Nurse Jackie: Exploring Learning Processes within a Knowledge Culture; Giving Substance to Ghostly Figures: How Female Nursing Students Respond to a Cultural Portrayal of "Women's Work" in Health Care; Narratives of Illness in South African Cinema: What Can Popular Culture Teach Us about HIV?; Pedagogies of Gender in a Disney Mash-up: Princesses, Queens, Beasts, Pirates, Lost Boys, and Witches; How to be a Woman: Models of Masochism and Sacrifice in Young Adult Fiction; Contributors; Name Index; Subject Index.