[Commlist] New book - Teachers and Teaching on Stage and on Screen

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Intellect is pleased to announce that /Teachers and Teaching on Stage 
and on Screen 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/teachers-and-teaching-on-stage-and-on-screen>,/ by Diane 
Conrad and Monica Prendergast is now available.

Why are educators and their profession the focus of so much film and 
theatre? Diane Conrad and Monica Prendergast bring together scholars and 
practitioners in education, examining dramatic portrayals of teachers 
and teaching to answer this very question. Films such as /Freedom 
Writers/, /Bad Teacher/ and /School of Rock/, to name a few, 
intentionally or inadvertently comment on education and influence the 
opinions and, ultimately, the experiences of anyone who has taught or 
been taught. The chapters gathered in this collection critique the 
Hollywood 'good teacher' repertoire, delve into satiric parodies and 
alternative representations and explore issues through analyses of 
independent and popular films and plays from around the world. By 
examining teacher-student relationships, institutional cultures, 
societal influences and much more, /Teachers and Teaching on Stage and 
on Screen/ addresses these media’s varied fascinations with the educator 
like no collection before it.

*_Table of Contents_*
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*Part I: Teacher Reflections/Reflections on Teachers*

*Chapter 1:* Three Perspectives on /Freedom Writers/: Considering 
Teaching Across the Career Span by Jaime L. Beck

*Chapter 2:* Characteristics of a Successful Learner Applied to /Why 
Shoot The Teacher? /by//Phil Duchene

*Chapter 3:* The Roles We 'Were Born to Fill': Thinking about Performing 
Teaching with /Mona Lisa Smile /by Dorothy Morrissey

*Chapter 4: *A Curriculum of Diversity in /Monsieur Lazhar /by Jenny Osorio

*Chapter 5:* Laughing to Learn: Irony in /Election /by Carl Leggo and 
Claire Ahn


*Part II: Teachers as Heroes or Antiheros*

*Chapter 6:* The Light and Dark Archetypes of Teachers: What Can 
/Matilda/ Tell us about Teacher Identity? by Angelina Ambrosetti

*Chapter 7:* The Problem with Mr. Holland: The Portrayal of Music 
Teachers in Film – /Mr. Holland’s Opus /by Nancy Curry and Jeffrey Curry

*Chapter 8:* The Politics of Representation of Pedagogues in Nollywood: 
A Critical Analysis of /Somewhere in Africa: The Cries of Humanity /by 
Taiwo Afolabi and Stephen Okpadah

*Chapter 9:* An Unlikely Revolution: Portrayals of Teaching in /Strictly 
Ballroom /by Anita Hallewas

*Chapter 10: *Good Teacher//Bad Teacher/…Is that all we are? by Patricia 
Jagger


*Part III: Pedagogies/Pedagogical Moments*

*Chapter 11:* O Brave New World? The Role of Arts Education as presented 
in the film /Hunky Dory /by Claire Coleman and Jane Luton

*Chapter 12:* “You’re not Hardcore, unless you Live Hardcore”: Exploring 
Pedagogical Encounters in /School of Rock /by Mitchell McLarnon

*Chapter 13:*/ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix/ and the 
Pedagogy of Misdirection by Matthew Krehl Edward Thomas and Bernadette 
Walker-Gibbs

*Chapter 14:* Playfulness, Relationships, and Worldviews: Indigenous 
Pedagogy and /Conrack /by Matthew “Gus” Gusul

*Chapter 15:* Bill and Ted’s Assessable Adventure: A Frame Analysis of 
Assessment Representations in Popular Culture – /Bill and Ted’s 
Excellent Adventure /by Rachael Jacobs**

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*Part IV: Ethics and Desire in Teaching*

*Chapter 16:* Teaching as a Moral Act: Reflections on Five Plays 
Featuring Teachers and Students (Shaw’s /Pygmalion/, Kanin’s /Born 
Yesterday/, Riml’s /RAGE/, Mamet’s /Oleanna/, and Russell’s /Educating 
Rita/) by Monica Prendergast

*Chapter 17:* Granting “the Wherewithal to Resist”: The Erotic as 
Pedagogical Supplement in Alan Bennett’s /The History Boys /by Ian Tan 
Xing Long

*Chapter 18:* Why are You Doing This? Negotiating the Gift of Education 
in Development Work in Nepal: /Kathmandu – A Mirror in the Sky /by Ruth 
Hol Mjanger, in dialogue with Bibek Shakya, Reiny de Witt and Meena 
Subba Karki

*Chapter 19:* Learning with Brecht: Exploring the 
Learning-to-Read-and-Write-Scene in /The Mother /by Stig A. Eriksson

*Chapter 20: *Teaching, Fantasy and Desire: Me and /Mona Lisa Smile /by 
Kate Bride and edited by Elizabeth Yeoman

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*Part V: Destabilising Perspectives of Teachers and Teaching*

*Chapter 21:* Wrestling with Vulnerabilities & the Potential for 
Difference: The Pedagogy of Drug Use in /Half Nelson /by Diane Conrad

*Chapter 22:* The Seductress in the Classroom: Female Teacher as Erotic 
Object and Fantasy in /The Piano Teacher /by Melissa Tamporello

*Chapter 23:* Knowing Where We Came From: An Examination of the One-act 
play /Education is Our Right /by Carmen Rodríguez de France

*Chapter 24:*/ Art School Confidential/: Profound Offence or Just Good 
Fun? by Anita Sinner and Thibault Zimmer

*Chapter 25:* Emancipatory Reaggregation of the/ Irrational Man/: 
(Im)moral Possibilities of an Existential, Lived-Curriculum by Sean 
Wiebe and Pauline Sameshima


Please visit our website for more information: 
https://www.intellectbooks.com/teachers-and-teaching-on-stage-and-on-screen

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