Webb, Chapter 2

Once again, I enjoyed Webb's straight forward approaches. Teaching about homelessness is a great cultural perspective to take when reading different texts. I agree with Webb when he points out that drawing on cultural studies is a "vital dialogue begins to emerge between issues in the world and the experiences and knowledge that my students were bringing to class." It gives the students an interesting goal to keep reaching for through reading. Students are sick of doing the usual plot, setting, character development analyzations. Focusing on a topic like homelessness gives the students meaning to their anlayzations. Also, as Webb says, his students also got to learn about stereotyping and how the two connect, this gives the students a chance to learn a wide range of topics in relation to their readings.
A topic such as homelessness can effect all different kinds of areas, as Webb points out in the begining of the chapter. Especially with teaching in more of the urban areas, students could be faced with homelessness everyday. With important controversial topics such as homelessness, it is easy for many different other topics to stem from this. Again as Webb points out that his students went further and from then followed the news and continues to be homeless advocates.