Teachers and Teaching on Stage and on Screen : Dramatic Depictions.

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 -- 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 -- 12. "You're Not Hardcore (Unless You Live Hardcore)": Exploring Pedagogical Encounters in School of Rock -- 13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: A Pedagogy of Misdirection -- 14. Playfulness, Relationships, and Worldviews: Indigenous Pedagogy and Conrack -- 15. Bill &amp -- Ted's Assessable Adventure: A Frame Analysis of Assessment Representations in Popular Culture Through Bill &amp -- Ted's Excellent Adventure -- Part IV: Ethics and Desire in Teaching -- 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 -- Part V: Destabilizing Perspectives of Teachers and Teaching -- 21. 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.

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.

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