Full Description
Films about education provide many of the most popular interpretations of what teaching and learning mean in schools. An analysis of this medium reveals much about the historical, cultural, political, and philosophical dimensions of education. Timely and engaging, this book fills a gap for scholarly and informed public commentary on the portrayal of education in film, offering a wide range of conceptual and interpretive perspectives.
Teaching, Learning, and Schooling in Film explores several key questions, including: What does it mean to be a good teacher? How do these good teachers instruct? When is and what makes teaching complex? What constitutes learning? Do educational reforms work? The book's interdisciplinary group of contributors answers these important questions in essays highlighting Hollywood, independent, and documentary films. Prospective and practicing teachers will engage with the thought-provoking educational issues raised in this book and gain insight into the complexities of teaching and learning portrayed in film.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: An Invitation to Read and View
Section 1: Teaching
Section 1 Introduction: On Teaching in Film
The Teacher Archetype in the Movies
James Rhem
From Blackboard To Smartboard: Hollywood's Perennially Misleading Teacher Heroes
Avram Barlowe and Ann Cook
Exploring the Heroic Teacher Narrative with Help From the Trickster
Ian Parker Renga
Contending Views of Teaching in Film
Daniel P. Liston
Monsieur Lazhar: The Subversive Dance of Relationship and the "Fierce Urgency of Now"
Linda Irwin-DeVitis and Joseph L. DeVitis
Section 2: Learning
Section 2: Introduction: On Learning in Film
Pastry, Practice, and the Pursuit of Excellence: A Commentary on Kings of Pastry
Jennie Whitcomb
Dilemmas of Becoming in Searching for Bobby Fischer
Kevin O'Connor, Lisa Comparini, Stephen Dine Young, and Anna-Ruth Allen
Whale Rider: Culture, Cosmopolitanism, and Unofficial Schooling
Steven Weiland
The History Boys and Cosmopolitanism
Daniel P. Liston and Ian Parker Renga
A Poetics of Moral Education: Insights from Lee Chang-Dong's Poetry
David T. Hansen and Kyung Hwa Jung
Section 3: Schooling
Section 3 Introduction: On Schooling in Film
Creating Classroom Civility
Megan J. Laverty
White Supremacy, Neo/Colonial Education, and the Struggle for Precious Knowledge
José García, Luis Urrieta, Jr., and Eric Ruiz Bybee
Dropout Nation: The School to Prison Pipeline, Educational Reform and Caring for African American and Latino Students
Courtney S. Robinson, Luis Urrieta, Jr., and Nydia A. Counts
The Dialectical Progression: From The First Year and Waiting for "Superman" to TEACH
James Trier
Waiting for "Superman", The Inconvenient Truth Behind "Waiting for 'Superman'", and Taking Sides in Debates About Public Schools
Katy M. Swalwell and Michael W. Apple
Contributors
