John M. Broughton

John M. Broughton is an American

Broughton became an associate professor of Psychology and Education[3] at the Teachers College at Columbia University in 1976 and continues to hold the position.^[4] When Teachers College underwent departmental reorganisation in the mid-1990s, Broughton retained his title but moved to the Department of Arts and Humanities,^[2] where he expanded classroom techniques to include the use of music, advertising, magazines, video games, television, and the internet.^[1] His classes often cover cultural studies, media and visual culture, youth culture, popular culture, gender, and violence.^[1] In October 1999 Broughton co-ordinated a conference at Teachers College titled "Children, Culture and Violence". The conference brought together experts on school violence,^[5] and was sponsored by Teacher's College, Adelphi University, Long Island University, and the Glass Institute for Basic Psychoanalytic Research.^[6] Most presentations addressed the roots of violence and finding ways to break the cycle.^[5] Some of his students organised the first national conference on Cultural Studies and Education, which was held at Teachers College.^[1] In June 2003 Broughton contributed severals works to Columbia doctoral student and curator Frank Shifreen's art exhibit Art Against War. The exhibition featured posters analysing war from over 14 countries.^[7] Broughton co-founded the "Film and Education Research Center" with doctoral advisee Kelvin Shawn Sealey.^[2] FERA is now a part of the Center for Educational Outreach and Innovation at Teachers College, and its stated mission is to explore the interplay between cinema, teaching, and learning. It is a research, publishing, and teaching project.^[8] On 26 March 2004, FERA hosted actor and scholar Cornel West of The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions at Teachers College to give a program entitled Film & Education: The Matrix of the Possible. In April 2005, Sealey again worked with Broughton to organise Project Citizen, a series of academic film discussions in talk show format.^[9]

As expert

Broughton has been quoted as an expert on psychology and media culture in several national publications, including

• 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)[2]^[3]
• Beyond Formal Operations: Theoretical Thought in Adolescence (1997, Teachers College Record, Volume 79)

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