John M. Broughton
Associate Professor of Psychology and Education
212-678-3884
Office Hours: Fall office hours: Tues 9-10pm, Wed 9-10pm, Friday 4-5pm
Office Location: 329-B Horace Mann
Expertise
- Adolescence
- Arts in Education
- Computing and Technology
- Gender Issues in Education
- Multilingual/Multiculturalism
- Psychological Development
- Violence and Crime
John M. Broughton
Professional Background
Educational Background
B.A., M.A., Cambridge University; Ph.D., Harvard University
Scholarly Interests
Selected Publications
Critical Theories of Psychological Development (Plenum Press).
"Smart weapons and military TV" (Technoscience and Cyberculture).
"The experience of the father" (Insights).
"Hollywood ultraviolence as educator" (Psychoanalysis and Education).
"What the transgender child teaches us." (Bank Street College Occasional Papers).
A&HF 4060: Youth cultures
Issues in adolescent/early adult subculture formation. Effects on learning, school, college, employment. Alienation, resistance, creativity. Literary-aesthetic approaches to symbolic styles, fashions, movements,and cults. Multicultural/class/gender differences. Special fee: $45.
A&H 4061: Introduction to cultural studies
Professor Broughton. Theory, method, and research in the emerging field of cultural studies in education. Mass culture and school culture as learning environments interpreted from arts and humanities perspectives: structuralism/poststructuralism, semiotics, discourse and film analysis, psychoanalysis, ideology-critique, identity politics, feminism, queer theory. Special fee $35.
A&HF 4061: Introduction to cultural studies
Theory, method and research in the emerging field of cultural studies in education. Mass culture and school culture as learning environments interpreted from arts and humanities perspectives: structuralism/poststructuralism, semiotics, discourse and film analysis, psychoanalysis, ideology-critique, identity politics, feminism, queer theory. Special fee $45
A&H 4065: Media and visual culture
Professor Broughton. The relationship of contemporary education to the new visual literacies. Students as media audiences. Critical responses to the new media and the dominance of screen/image in learning. Changes in teaching required for emerging technologies and innovative settings. Special fee $35.
A&HF 4065: Media and visual culture
The relationship of contemporary education to the new visual literacies. Critical responses to the new media and the dominance of screen/image in learning. Changes in teaching required for non-traditional technologies and settings. Special fee $45.
A&HF 4088: Popular culture
Critical examination of mass communication as an informal medium of education: film, TV, comic books, music, dance, advertising, low vs. high culture and hybrid forms. Enrollees learn to create and promote their own pop-cultural commodity. Special fee: $40.
A&HF 4089: Aesthetics of Technology
Technology as a cultural form regulating the development of the human self. Metaphysical, symbolic and fantasy components in computing, space travel, medicine, reproduction, and childrens toys. Literary and artistic representations. Special fee: $40.
A&HF 4130: Gender and violence
How literal and symbolic violence shape gender formation. Aggression in the lives of men and women. Racism, homophobia, child-abuse, date-rape, demonism, guns and bombs, in reality, art, and fiction. Special fee: $40.
A&HF 4900: Independent study in philosophy and education
Permission of instructor required.
A&H 5010: Special topics in arts and humanities
Focus on topics and issues using existing documents, studies and multimedia to support investigations into critical issues in arts and humanities.
IND 6520: Youth Std:Poss Selves Mult Wrl
A&HF 6900: Advanced research in philosophy and education
Permission of instructor required. For doctoral students in Philosophy and Education only.
A&HF 6980: Studies in philosophy and education
Advanced students may register for intensive individual study of some aspect of their specialization. Registration is only by permission of a faculty member, under whose guidance the work will be undertaken. Times for individual conferences will be arranged. Enrollment may be for 1 or more points each term, and registration is not limited to one or two terms.
A&HF 7500: Dissertation seminar in philosophy and education
Permission of instructor required. Required of doctoral students in the semester following successful completion of the doctoral certification process or in the semester in which the student defends the dissertation proposal, whichever comes first.
A&HF 8900: Dissertation advisement in philosophy and education
Permission of instructor required. Individual advisement on doctoral dissertations. For requirements, see section in catalog on Continuous Registration for Ed.D./Ph.D. degrees. Fee to equal 3 points at current tuition rate for each term.
