Education in Popular Culture: Telling Tales on Teachers and Learners

by Fisher; Roy

• ISBN13: 9780415332415
• ISBN10: 0415332419
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book provides an overview of education as it is represented in popular culture, together with a framework through which educators can interpret these representations in relation to their own professional values and development. This framework also links the portrayal of teachers with on-going educational and political discourses. Demonstrating how popular culture both reflects and constructs social and professional ideas about the teacher, the book looks at a number of themes central to current debates about education: sexuality of teachers and of pupils bullying pupil rebellion and underachievement school as a community lifelong learning.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Note to readers on the web-interactive use of this book	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Education and popular culture	p. 1
What is this book?	p. 2
The wider field	p. 4
Representation: some useful concepts	p. 8
Education: values, purpose and professionalism	p. 18
The good teacher: class heroes and school saints	p. 23
Hear the music	p. 29
Hard cases	p. 32
Who knocks at the door of learning?	p. 38
To teach or not to teach?	p. 42
The sad and the bad	p. 45
Bad teachers: official definitions and public suspicions	p. 45
The sad	p. 47
The bad	p. 53
Summary	p. 62
High school confidential	p. 65
Introduction	p. 65
Sex and education: the social context	p. 67
Popular culture and girls' identities	p. 68
Dangerous dates and daring daughters: love and sex in teenage horror	p. 69
Sex and students in popular music	p. 73
Drugs and education: the social context	p. 76
Drugs and alcohol in school movies	p. 80
Summary: really not so dangerous?	p. 84
Hot for teacher	p. 86
Romancing the teacher	p. 90
Teacher-student relationships in film	p. 97
Sex and teachers in popular music	p. 99
Summary	p. 104
Don't pick on me	p. 105
Achievement and acceptance	p. 110
Race and gender	p. 112
Frenemies	p. 116
Bully for television	p. 120
Summary	p. 124
We don't need no education?	p. 127
Introduction	p. 127
Examining Beavis and Butt-head for signs of life	p. 128
Popular music: pro- and anti-education	p. 134
The Guinea Pig	p. 136
St Trinian's	p. 138
If	p. 140
Class realities and violence	p. 141
School for grown-ups: lifelong learning in popular culture	p. 146
Introduction	p. 146
Educating Rita	p. 148
Buffy the Vampire Slayer	p. 152
Boiler Room	p. 154
Wilt	p. 156
The Simpsons	p. 161
Summary	p. 165
(In) conclusion	p. 168
Teachers	p. 168
Students	p. 171
Curriculum	p. 174
More about popular culture in education	p. 176
Teaching and critical reflection	p. 178
Finally...	p. 180
Notes	p. 183
Useful websites	p. 185
Bibliography	p. 186
Index	p. 200
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