Education in Popular Culture : Telling Tales on Teachers and Learners

This work provides an overview of education as it appears in popular culture and demonstrates how popular culture both reflects and constructs social and professional ideas about the teacher. Education in Popular Culture explores what makes schools, colleges, teachers and students an enduring focus for a wide range of contemporary media. What is it about the school experience that makes us wish to relive it again and again? The 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. The analyses are contextualised within contemporary, historical and ideological frameworks, and make connections between popular representations and professional and political discourses about education. Through its examination of film, television, popular lyrics and fiction, this book tackles educational themes that recur in popular culture, and demonstrates how they intersect with debates concerning teacher performance, the curriculum and young people's behaviour and morality. Chapters explore how experiences of education are both reflected and constructed in ways that sometimes reinforce official and professional educational perspectives, and sometimes resist and oppose them. Education in Popular Culture will stimulate critical reflection on the popular myths and professional discourses that surround teachers and teaching. It will serve to deepen analyses of teaching and learning and their associated institutional and societal contexts in a creative and challenging way. Education in Popular Culture explores what makes schools, colleges, teachers and students an enduring focus for a wide range of contemporary media. What is it about the school experience that makes us wish to relive it again and again? The 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. The analyses are contextualised within contemporary, historical and ideological frameworks, and make connections between popular representations and professional and political discourses about education. Through its examination of film, television, popular lyrics and fiction, this book tackles educational themes that recur in popular culture, and demonstrates how they intersect with debates concerning teacher performance, the curriculum and young people's behaviour and morality. Chapters explore how experiences of education are both reflected and constructed in ways that sometimes reinforce official and professional educational perspectives, and sometimes resist and oppose them. Education in Popular Culture will stimulate critical reflection on the popular myths and professional discourses that surround teachers and teaching. It will serve to deepen analyses of teaching and learning and their associated institutional and societal contexts in a creative and challenging way

how Do Representations Of The Teaching Profession In Popular Culture Compare With The Professional Values Of Teachers?

representations Of Teachers Are Found In Television, Film, Popular Music And Other Forms Of Media. This Book Provides An Overview Of Education As It Appears In Popular Culture, Together With A Framework Through Which Student Teachers, Teachers And Educators Can Interpret These Representations In Relation To Their Own Professional Values And Development. The Framework Also Links The Portrayal Of Teachers With Current Educational Discourses Expressed Through Policy Documents And Political And Professional Debate.

it Demonstrates How Popular Culture Both Reflects And Constructs Social And Professional Ideas About The Teacher By Looking At A Number Of Themes That Are Central To Contemporary Debates About Education:

* Good Teachers
* Bad Teachers
* Sexuality Of Teachers
* Sexuality Of Pupils
* Bullying
* Pupil Rebellion And Underachievement
* School As Acommunity
* Lifelong Learning

the Authors Draw Conclusions About The Ambivalent Attitudes In Society Towards Education And Teachers, And Argues That A Construct Of The Teacher Has Developed That Is So Elevated And Romanticised That It Cannot Be Achieved By Real People. Not Only That, But It Has Led To A Counter-construct Of Teachers As Either Wholly Inept, Wholly Evil Or Both.

this Book Should Be Read By All Those Involved In Education. It Will Be Of Particular Interest To Students Studying The 'professional Values And Practice' Section Of The New Professional Standards For Qualifying To Teach, And For Those On Education Values Courses.

Introduction -- The Good Teacher : Class Heroes And School Saints -- The Sad And The Bad -- High School Confidential -- Hot For Teacher -- Don't Pick On Me -- We Don't Need No Education? -- School For Grown-ups : Lifelong Learning In Popular Culture -- (in) Conclusion. Roy Fisher, Ann Harris And Christine Jarvis. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [186]-199) And Index. Demonstrating how popular culture both reflects and constructs social and professional ideas about the teacher, this book looks at a number of themes that are central to debates about education including bullying, underachievement and sexuality.