Teaching, Learning, and Schooling in Film: Reel Education

by Daniel P. Liston (Editor), Ian Renga (Editor)

Overview

Timely and engaging, this book fills a gap for scholarly and informed public commentary on the portrayal of education in film, offering a wide range of conceptual and interpretive perspectives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415737661
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/28/2014
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Daniel P. Liston is Professor of Education at University of Colorado, Boulder

Ian Parker Renga is a Doctoral Candidate in Education at University of Colorado, Boulder

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: An Invitation to Read and View

Section 1: Teaching

Section 1 Introduction: On Teaching in Film

1. The Teacher Archetype in the Movies

James Rhem

2. From Blackboard To Smartboard: Hollywood’s Perennially Misleading Teacher Heroes

Avram Barlowe and Ann Cook

3. Exploring the Heroic Teacher Narrative with Help From the Trickster

Ian Parker Renga

4. Contending Views of Teaching in Film

Daniel P. Liston

5. Monsieur Lazhar: The Subversive Dance of Relationship and the "Fierce Urgency of Now"

Linda Irwin-DeVitis and Joseph L. DeVitis

Section 2: Learning

Section 2: Introduction: On Learning in Film

6. Pastry, Practice, and the Pursuit of Excellence: A Commentary on Kings of Pastry

Jennie Whitcomb

7. Dilemmas of Becoming in Searching for Bobby Fischer

Kevin O’Connor, Lisa Comparini, Stephen Dine Young, and Anna-Ruth Allen

8. Whale Rider: Culture, Cosmopolitanism, and Unofficial Schooling

Steven Weiland

9. The History Boys and Cosmopolitanism

Daniel P. Liston and Ian Parker Renga

10. A Poetics of Moral Education: Insights from Lee Chang-Dong’s Poetry

David T. Hansen and Kyung Hwa Jung

Section 3: Schooling

Section 3 Introduction: On Schooling in Film

11. Creating Classroom Civility

Megan J. Laverty

12. White Supremacy, Neo/Colonial Education, and the Struggle for Precious Knowledge

José García, Luis Urrieta, Jr., and Eric Ruiz Bybee

13. Dropout Nation: The School to Prison Pipeline, Educational Reform and Caring for African American and Latino Students

Courtney S. Robinson, Luis Urrieta, Jr., and Nydia A. Counts

14. The Dialectical Progression:　 From The First Year and Waiting for "Superman" to TEACH

James Trier

15. Waiting for "Superman", The Inconvenient Truth Behind "Waiting for ‘Superman’", and Taking Sides in Debates About Public Schools

Katy M. Swalwell and Michael W. Apple

Contributors

Editorial Reviews

"Films about schooling provide many of the most popular interpretations of what teaching and learning mean in schools. Here, the reader will find a host of alternative interpretations. Combined, these films and their critics allow us to look at ourselves as teachers and learners and decide on our own what it all means."

Jim Garrison, Virginia Tech, USA

"Movies about education are often stereotypic and trite, featuring heroic teachers and bored students in classrooms with old desks and dusty chalkboards. Daniel Liston and Ian Renga have assembled a wide diversity of noted scholars to consider the subtle and complex ways the acts of teaching and learning have been depicted in a variety of international films. We can see here how cinema, arguably the most important art form created in the last century, can not only entertain, but also help us envision a better world through imaginative depictions of teaching and learning. I will use this volume in my own teaching and scholarship."

AG Rud, Washington State University, USA

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