The Simpsons in Higher Education
- Submitting institution
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University of Derby
- Unit of assessment
- 23 - Education
- Output identifier
- 779048-1
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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- Title of journal
- Innovative Practice in Higher Education
- Article number
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- First page
- 14
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 3
- ISSN
- 2044-3315
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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http://journals.staffs.ac.uk/index.php/ipihe/article/view/99
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This research was exploring the potential of the popular culture icon The Simpsons in Higher Education. Specifically, it examined pedagogic applications of; The Simpsons TV show, The Simpsons as a cultural phenomenon and The Simpson characters. The investigation included all disciplines commonly taught in Higher Education Institutions.
The methodology was a systematic literature review using the PubMed & Science Direct databases and Google Scholar. The Keywords used were “Simpson AND Higher Education” the search included journals, books and in-formal outputs (lesson plans and magazine articles). Articles not related to the TV show or higher educations were excluded from the final review. In parallel a search of the Simpson TV show encyclopaedia was undertaken to identify any words or phenomena related to science.
This research directly translated into taught material on UG forensic programmes at the University of Derby. The Simpsons opening chalkboard sequences were the central tenant in a lecture and practical activity on forensic handwriting analysis (2014-2018). The potential of the Simpsons and other popular culture icons was disseminated internally at the UoD Learning and Teaching Conference 2014 “Spiderman and Bart Simpson using popular culture to enhance Undergraduate Delivery” and a College research seminar (2014) “Eat my Shorts Man! Is Bart Simpsons a Fraud?” It also formed a part of a external workshop on ‘Creative Teaching’ at Nottingham Trent University’s Interactive Learning Project Symposium on the 6th July 2015.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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