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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editors' Introduction: We Are Therefore We Teach; Part I: Teacher Reflections/Reflections on Teachers; 1. Three Perspectives on Freedom Writers: Considering Teaching Across the Career Span; 2. Characteristics of a Successful Learner Applied to Why Shoot The Teacher?; 3. The Roles We "Were Born to Fill": Thinking about Performing Teaching with Mona Lisa Smile; 4. A Curriculum of Diversity in Monsieur Lazhar; 5. Laughing to Learn: Irony in Election; Part II: Teachers as Heroes or Antiheroes |
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6. The Light and Dark Archetypes of Teachers: What Can Matilda Tell Us about Teacher Identity?7. The Problem with Mr. Holland: The Portrayal of Music Teachers in Film Through Mr. Holland's Opus; 8. The Politics of Representation of Pedagogues in Nollywood: A Critical Analysis of Somewhere in Africa: The Cries of Humanity; 9. An Unlikely Revolution: Portrayals of Teaching in Strictly Ballroom; 10. Good Teacher/Bad Teacher ... Is That All We Are?; Part III: Pedagogies/Pedagogical Moments; 11. O Brave New World? The Role of Arts Education as Presented in Hunky Dory |
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12. "You're Not Hardcore (Unless You Live Hardcore)": Exploring Pedagogical Encounters in School of Rock13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: A Pedagogy of Misdirection; 14. Playfulness, Relationships, and Worldviews: Indigenous Pedagogy and Conrack; 15. Bill & Ted's Assessable Adventure: A Frame Analysis of Assessment Representations in Popular Culture Through Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure; Part IV: Ethics and Desire in Teaching |
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16. Teaching as a Moral Act: Reflections on Five Plays Featuring Teachers and Students (Shaw's Pygmalion, Kanin's Born Yesterday, Riml's RAGE, Mamet's Oleanna, and Russell's Educating Rita)17. Granting "the Wherewithal to Resist": The Erotic as Pedagogical Supplement in Alan Bennett's The History Boys; 18. Why are You Doing This? Negotiating the Gift of Education in Development Work in Nepal through Kathmandu: A Mirror in the Sky; 19. Learning with Brecht: Exploring the "Learning to Read and Write" Scene in The Mother; 20. Teaching, Fantasy, and Desire: Me and Mona Lisa Smile |
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Part V: Destabilizing Perspectives of Teachers and Teaching21. Wrestling with Vulnerabilities and the Potential for Difference: The Pedagogy of Drug Use in Half Nelson; 22. The Seductress in the Classroom: The Female Teacher as Erotic Object and Fantasy in The Piano Teacher; 23. Knowing Where We Came From: An Examination of the One-Act Play Education is Our Right; 24. Art School Confidential: Profound Offence or Just Good Fun?; 25. The Emancipatory Reaggregation of the Irrational Man: (Im)moral Possibilities of an Existential, Lived Curriculum; Biographies; Back Cover |
| Summary |
Portrayals of teachers in stage plays and films abound. This edited anthology brings together scholars in education to seriously reflect upon portrayals of teachers and teaching in theatre and film. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Teachers in motion pictures.
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Teachers in motion pictures. |
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Education in mass media.
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Education in mass media. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Conrad, Diane, 1961- editor.
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Prendergast, Monica, editor.
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Prendergast, Monica.
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| ISBN |
9781789380699 (electronic book) |
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1789380693 (electronic book) |
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9781789380675 |
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