Exploring Teachers in Fiction and Film (eBook, PDF)

Saviors, Scapegoats and Schoolmarms
Redaktion: Shoffner, Melanie

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The aim of this book is twofold: to examine the constructed figure of the teacher in film, television, and text, and to apply that examination in the context of teacher education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317371687
• Artikelnr.: 44873968

Autorenporträt

Melanie Shoffner is Associate Professor of English Education, Purdue University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword
Robert Bulman
Preface
Part I: Introduction
Melanie Shoffner
Part II: Identifying with the Teacher Image
1. Looking into the mirror of erised: Transacting with Representations of
Hogwarts' Teachers and Pedagogy
Dawan Coombs
Jonathan Ostenson
2. Playing the role of teacher: Using film to explore teacher identities
Sheryl Long
Carol A. Pope
3. The Role of the Teacher, Real and Imagined
Jason Whitney
4. Coming of age in the classroom: Representations of teachers in the short
fiction of Toni Cade Bambara and Sandra Cisneros
Rodrigo Joseph Rodríguez
5. From content literate to pedagogically content literate: Teachers as
tools for social justice
Nalova Westbrook
6. (Re)Imagining life in the classroom: Inciting dialogue through an
examination of teacher- student relationships in film
Mark A. Lewis
Ian Parker Renga
Part III: Constructing the Teacher with Content
7. Teacher images in Young Adult literature: Pedagogical implications for
English preservice teachers
Benjamin Boche
8. Why Teach Mathematics?: Values Underlying Mathematics Teaching in
Feature Films
Amanda Jansen
Charles Hohensee
9. I teach Jim and Jane; I don't teach gym
Carol A. Smith
10. What does it mean to be literate? Examining school film teachers and
their literacy values with preservice teachers
Shelbie Witte
11. The hidden curriculum in Room 10: School mythology and professional
identity negotiation in the Miss Malarkey picture book series
Sarah Fischer
Part IV: Imaging the Teacher as Savior
12. Moving beyond the teacher savior: Education films, teacher identity and
public discourse
Carey Applegate
13. Revisionist films: Detaching from teacher as hero/savior
Chea Parton
14. Deconstructing a new teacher savior: Paladins and politics in Won't
Back Down
Ashley Boyd
15. Chalk: Overwriting the savior narrative
Walter E. Squire
Part V: The Teacher Construct as Commentary
16. Films, governmentality and agency in the struggle over reading
education
Patrick Shannon
17. Why Bad Teacher is a bad movie and where the real crisis is:
Implications for teachers and teacher education
J. Patrick McGrail
Ewa McGrail
18. Preparing Teachers in the Time of Superman: The Accountability
Narrative of Education Documentaries
Christian Z. Goering
Jen S. Dean
Brandon Flammang
19. No human left behind:Falling Skies and the role of the pedagogue in the
post-apocalypse
Jeff Spanke
List of Contributors