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Author:   Melanie Shoffner
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   1.050kg
ISBN:  

9781138944404

ISBN 10:   1138944408
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   06 April 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents Foreword Robert Bulman Preface Part I: Introduction Melanie Shoffner Part II: Identifying with the Teacher Image 1. Looking into the mirror of erised: Transacting with Representations of Hogwarts’ Teachers and Pedagogy Dawan Coombs Jonathan Ostenson 2. Playing the role of teacher: Using film to explore teacher identities Sheryl Long Carol A. Pope 3. The Role of the Teacher, Real and Imagined Jason Whitney 4. Coming of age in the classroom: Representations of teachers in the short fiction of Toni Cade Bambara and Sandra Cisneros Rodrigo Joseph Rodríguez 5. From content literate to pedagogically content literate: Teachers as tools for social justice Nalova Westbrook 6. (Re)Imagining life in the classroom: Inciting dialogue through an examination of teacher- student relationships in film Mark A. Lewis Ian Parker Renga Part III: Constructing the Teacher with Content 7. Teacher images in Young Adult literature: Pedagogical implications for English preservice teachers Benjamin Boche 8. Why Teach Mathematics?: Values Underlying Mathematics Teaching in Feature Films Amanda Jansen Charles Hohensee 9. I teach Jim and Jane; I don't teach gym Carol A. Smith 10. What does it mean to be literate? Examining school film teachers and their literacy values with preservice teachers Shelbie Witte 11. The hidden curriculum in Room 10: School mythology and professional identity negotiation in the Miss Malarkey picture book series Sarah Fischer Part IV: Imaging the Teacher as Savior 12. Moving beyond the teacher savior: Education films, teacher identity and public discourse Carey Applegate 13. Revisionist films: Detaching from teacher as hero/savior Chea Parton 14. Deconstructing a new teacher savior: Paladins and politics in Won’t Back Down Ashley Boyd 15. Chalk: Overwriting the savior narrative Walter E. Squire Part V: The Teacher Construct as Commentary 16. Films, governmentality and agency in the struggle over reading education Patrick Shannon 17. Why Bad Teacher is a bad movie and where the real crisis is: Implications for teachers and teacher education J. Patrick McGrail Ewa McGrail 18. Preparing Teachers in the Time of Superman: The Accountability Narrative of Education Documentaries Christian Z. Goering Jen S. Dean Brandon Flammang 19. No human left behind:Falling Skies and the role of the pedagogue in the post-apocalypse Jeff Spanke List of Contributors

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Melanie Shoffner is Associate Professor of English Education, Purdue University, USA.

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