Teaching, learning, and schooling in film : reel education

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Teaching, learning, and schooling in film : reel education

edited by Daniel P. Liston and Ian Parker Renga

Routledge, 2015

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

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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 Jose Garcia, 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

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