Teacher Representations in Dramatic Text and Performance

Portraying the Teacher on Stage
Herausgeber: Shoffner, Melanie; St. Peter, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines representations of the teacher on stage - in both theatrical performances and dramatic text - in order to demonstrate how these representations have shaped society's perceptions of educators in and out of the classroom.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9780367227814
• ISBN-10: 0367227819
• Artikelnr.: 57783879

Autorenporträt

Melanie Shoffner is Professor of Education at James Madison University, USA. Richard St. Peter is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Northwestern State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors
Foreword
Clay McLeod Chapman
Introduction
Melanie Shoffner & Richard St. Peter
Chapter 1: Unfit to teach: Morality, panic and hazardous teachers
James F. Wilson
Response to Chapter 1: Sexual perversity in our dreams of teaching
James Stillwaggon
Chapter 2: Educating Frank: Mentorship in Willy Russell's Educating Rita
Richard Corley
Response to Chapter 2: Educating Rita today
Andy Goodwyn
Chapter 3: Fun Home: Representations of a fractured father
Heather Welch
Response to Chapter 3: The complex multiplicities of teaching: Finding the
right metaphor
Marshall George
Chapter 4: The teacher's ethos in William Mastrosimone's Tamer of Horses
Benny Sato Ambush
Response to Chapter 4: The teacher as savior fallacy
Shelley Nowacek
Chapter 5: Teaching the coach, coaching the teacher
Richard St. Peter
Response to Chapter 5: Reading coaches critically
Luke Rodesiler
Chapter 6: A rocker in teacher's clothing: Outlandish lessons in School of
Rock: The Musical
Pauline Schmidt
Response to Chapter 6: The danger of Deweys: What real teachers face
Lisa Scherff
Chapter 7: A holey trinity: Crises of communion in John Patrick Shanley's
Doubt
Jeff Spanke
Response to Chapter 7: Faith and futurity: Embracing the struggle
Julie Gorlewski