Darts speaks about edutainment and how political ideals are mixing with entertainment. He states that visual culture is our everyday lives and that it is everywhere. Hidden forms of power (exposing and addressing oppression and encouraging social transformation) lie within visual culture. Within a school setting many students will resist and seemingly oppress themselves. These students attempt to make those around them acknowledge their identities and their lived experiences by setting themselves up for either apathetic aggressive behavior toward schooling. “Resistance need to be an effective pedagogical tool for exposing oppression and encouraging personal and social transformation… a location where students and teachers together are able to critically reflect upon and effectively challenge repressive practices and dominant structures that reinforce the inequities of the status quo…”(Darts, 317)
How can we as educators help empower students to meaningfully engage in the ideological and cultural struggles embedded within the visual?
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