Education in Popular Culture: Telling Tales on Teachers and Learners
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Book Description
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 a community
* 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.
Education in Popular Culture: Telling Tales on Teachers and Learners,R. FISHER,Routledge,0415332427,Education,Education / Teaching,Philosophy & Social Aspects,Popular Culture - General,Professional Development
Education in Popular Culture: Telling Tales on Teachers and Learners
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