Teachers, teaching, and media : : original essays about educators in popular culture / / edited by Mary M. Dalton and Laura R. Linder.

• TeilnehmendeR: Dalton, Mary M., 1962-; Linder, Laura R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Sense,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education 132.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (219 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright page --; Dedication --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; List of Figures --; Notes on Contributors --; A Loyalty Test for the American Educator /; Schooling the State /; Rethinking Student-Teacher Relationship Intimacy as Attachment /; Mr. Miller Goes to War /; In Loco Parentis Redux /; What’s a Nice White Lady to Do? /; The Dis-Education of Rock ‘n’ Roll /; Promoted to Control? /; The Insecure Teacher /; Contrasting the Archetypal Sage with the Mentor Coach in Young Adult Literature /; Saved by the Belles /; “Good” Teacher on Her Own Terms /; Liberatory Pedagogy in Action /; Q the Teacher—TV Lessons from the 24th Century /; Speechless to Speechless /; Back Matter --; Film Sources --; Television Sources --; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004398090
• ISSN: 2214-9732
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Mary M. Dalton and Laura R. Linder.

Popular representations of teachers and teaching are easy to take for granted precisely because they are so accessible and pervasive. Our lives are intertextual in the way lived experiences overlap with the stories of others presented to us through mass media. It is this set of connected narratives that we bring into classrooms and into discussions of educational policy. In this day and time—with public education under siege by forces eager to deprofessionalize teaching and transfer public funds to benefit private enterprises—we ignore the dominant discourse about education and the patterns of representation that typify educator characters at our peril. This edited volume offers a fresh take on educator characters in popular culture and also includes important essays about media texts that have not been addressed adequately in the literature previously. The 15 chapters cover diverse forms from literary classics to iconic teacher movies to popular television to rock ‘n’ roll. Topics explored include pedagogy through the lenses of gender, sexuality, race, disability, politics, narrative archetypes, curriculum, teaching strategies, and liberatory praxis. The various perspectives represented in this volume come from scholars and practitioners of education at all levels of schooling. This book is especially timely in an era when public education in the United States is under assault from conservative political forces and undervalued by the general public. Contributors are: Steve Benton, Naeemah Clark, Kristy Liles Crawley, Elizabeth Currin, Mary M. Dalton, Jill Ewing Flynn, Chad E. Harris, Gary Kenton, Mark A. Lewis, Ian Parker Renga, Stephanie Schroeder, Roslin Smith, Jeff Spanke, and Andrew Wirth.