Dangerous Minds, Dead Poets, and Democratic Education: Examining Representations of Students, Teachers, and Education in Hollywood Feature Film
Type of Presentation
Individual presentation
Brief Description of Presentation
This will be a co-led presentation by two teacher educators who have taught the course in several renditions since 2011. Using a ppt to share essential questions and a basic course overview, the presenters will reflect on particular issues students faced, including but not limited to the ways in which their thinking was challenged and/or reinforced through the films they watched and subsequent discussions with their peers. We will also reflect upon our experiences of revisiting these films as teacher educators, working with our own preservice teachers in face-to-face, hybrid, and online formats.
Abstract of Proposal
What does it mean to teach and be taught? How have we come to know what schooling is? And, how/should we challenge pervasive, and oftentimes troubling representations of schooling, teaching, and students? Taking Hollywood "feature film" as our inquiry into education and schooling, this proposal presents a course that has been offered since 2011 at both the graduate and undergraduate level. As co-developers of this course as graduate students, we have both since adapted the course and implemented it in a variety of ways and formats. While the course content has been relatively constant (using Dangerous Minds, Dead Poets Society, and Blackboard Jungle), additions of Clueless, School of Rock, Mean Girls, and Fist Fight have augmented discussions of race and class, to include issues of gender and sexual identity. Finally, we will conclude our presentations by discussing and reflecting upon the documentary filmmaking assignment students engaged in for their final project in the course.
Location
Session 2D (Habersham, Hilton Garden Inn)
Start Date
2-22-2019 1:20 PM
End Date
2-22-2019 2:50 PM
Recommended Citation
Mungur, Amy and Wylie, Scott, "Dangerous Minds, Dead Poets, and Democratic Education: Examining Representations of Students, Teachers, and Education in Hollywood Feature Film" (2019). International Critical Media Literacy Conference. 15.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/criticalmedialiteracy/2019/2019/15
Dangerous Minds, Dead Poets, and Democratic Education: Examining Representations of Students, Teachers, and Education in Hollywood Feature Film
Session 2D (Habersham, Hilton Garden Inn)
What does it mean to teach and be taught? How have we come to know what schooling is? And, how/should we challenge pervasive, and oftentimes troubling representations of schooling, teaching, and students? Taking Hollywood "feature film" as our inquiry into education and schooling, this proposal presents a course that has been offered since 2011 at both the graduate and undergraduate level. As co-developers of this course as graduate students, we have both since adapted the course and implemented it in a variety of ways and formats. While the course content has been relatively constant (using Dangerous Minds, Dead Poets Society, and Blackboard Jungle), additions of Clueless, School of Rock, Mean Girls, and Fist Fight have augmented discussions of race and class, to include issues of gender and sexual identity. Finally, we will conclude our presentations by discussing and reflecting upon the documentary filmmaking assignment students engaged in for their final project in the course.
