Teaching and Learning on Screen

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

   PDF

2. Introduction

   • Mark Readman

   Pages 1-7

3. What I Go to School For

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

      PDF

   2. Teaching Duquan Weems: Fallacies of the Hero-Teacher Construct as Seen in The Wire

      • Roger Saul

      Pages 11-25

   3. O Captain, My Captain! Robin Williams and Transformative Learning in Dead Poets Society, Good Will Hunting and Patch Adams

      • Penny Spirou

      Pages 27-43

   4. Investigating the “Teacher Savior”: Veronica Mars and the Mysteries of Education

      • Merideth Garcia, J. W. Hammond

      Pages 45-62

   5. Wiz Kids: An Exploration of Pedagogy in the World of Harry Potter, from Remus Lupin’s Differentiated Reconstructionism to Dolores Umbridge’s Discipline-Focused Essentialism

      • Novella Brooks de Vita

      Pages 63-81

   6. Tales of Teachers in Screen Culture: From Reel (The History Boys) to Reality (Educating Essex, Educating Yorkshire, Educating the East End and Educating Cardiff)

      • Susan Ellsmore

      Pages 83-96

4. Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

      PDF

   2. ‘Just Because You Teach, Doesn’t Mean It’s Over’: Bunheads and the Pedagogy of Live Performance

      • Kirsty Sedgman

      Pages 99-117

   3. Feminist and Queer Pedagogies in The Prime of Jean Brodie and Billy Elliot

      • Ahmet Atay

      Pages 119-134

   4. Education in the Fourth Dimension: Time Travel and Teachers in the TARDIS

      • Marcus Harmes

      Pages 135-150

   5. To Educate and Entertain: Representations of Learning in the Australian Version of Who Do You Think You Are?

      • Ava Laure Parsemain

      Pages 151-168

   6. The Horror of High School: Formal vs Informal Learning in Teen Horror Television

      • Katrina Lawrence

      Pages 169-186

5. Another Brick in the Wall

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187

      PDF

   2. “I Wanna Be a SHIT-Head!” Accepted and Radical Pedagogy

      • Mark Readman

      Pages 189-204

   3. Education, Nationalism, Democracy: Mediated Pedagogy in Turkish Cinema

      • Laurence Raw

      Pages 205-217

   4. Poverty, Illiteracy and Shame on the Brazilian Screen: Lessons from Dona Irene

      • Joel Windle

      Pages 219-235

   5. Žižek at the Gogglebox

      • Julian McDougall

      Pages 237-250

   6. Remediated Pedagogies? The Secret Life of Six Year Olds

      • Richard Berger, Ashley Woodfall

      Pages 251-263

What stories are told about teaching and learning on TV and in film? And how do these stories reflect, refract and construct myths, anxieties and pleasures about teaching and learning? This collection looks at how pedagogy is represented on screen, and how TV programs and films translate pedagogic ideas into stories and relationships. International in scope, with case studies and analysis from the UK, US, Australia, Turkey and Brazil—the book adopts a critical stance in relation to the ways in which theories of learning and myths about education are mobilized on screen. Teaching and Learning on Screen: Mediated Pedagogies provides a stimulating addition to the field of media and cultural studies, while also promoting debate about particular pedagogic models and strategies that will contribute to the professional development of educators and those involved in teacher education.

• Education
• Pedagogy
• Television
• Film
• Learning
• Teaching

• Poole, United Kingdom

  Mark Readman

Mark Readman is Principal Academic in Media Education at Bournemouth University, UK, where he teaches reflective practice at Masters and Doctoral level on professionally oriented programs. His research and publications include work on the rhetorics of creativity, screenwriting, and the generation of knowledge through practice.

Policies and ethics