"Fashion fades, style is eternal." -YSL

In class we discussed different representations of school and learning in popular culture.  We talked about different movies,TV shows, songs, comics, games, etc. and I thought that fashion could also be a good representation as well.  In school, all students have different learning styles.  They can learn really well using one technique and may struggle using another technique.  Like learning, people all have their own clothing style.  I was thinking about broad categories that I could group the learning style into.  I came up with traditional and nontraditional learning styles.  The fashions i thought of to go along with those styles would be preppy and hipster. 

 The traditional learning style would be compared to a preppy style.  A person who is preppy has a very traditional/classic look and don't really step outside of the box and experiment with different styles.  A traditional learner describes a student suited to learn with in the boundaries of a physical classroom using a predefined curriculum.   The classic and traditional look is always in style and is never changing.  It's very safe and you can never go wrong with that look.  Like the traditional clothing style, traditional learning is very safe and you can never go wrong with it.

The other learning style that can be represented by fashion is a nontraditional learning style.  The "hipster" would be the one to portray this learning style.  A hipster is a person who is aware of and interested in a new and unconventional patterns.  In school, there are always new technologies that teachers use to help students learn.  There are also always new theories that are coming out everyday.  Like the nontraditional learning styles, hipsters are always trying out the new fads that are coming out.  They like to experiment with these ideas and styles and they are trying to find their identity in a sense.  What style is cool and "in" one day maybe be totally gone the next day and they just keep trying out the new styles.