American Education in Popular Media [electronic resource] : From the Blackboard to the Silver Screen /
Terzian, S.editor.
Ryan, P.editor.
American Education in Popular Media explores how popular media has represented schooling in the United States over the course of the twentieth century. Terzian and Ryan examine prevalent portrayals of students and professional educators while addressing contested purposes of schooling in American society.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover ; American Education in Popular Media; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Popular Media Representations of American Schooling from the Past; Chapter 2 The College Man in Popular Fiction: American Magazines and the Vision of the Middle-Class Man, 1890-1915; Chapter 3 "A Touch of Risquity": Teachers, Perception, and Popular Culture in the Progressive Era; Chapter 4 "Spirit of Education": The Gendered Vision of Compulsory Schooling in Mass Magazine Art, 1908-1938; Chapter 5 Chalk It up to Experience: The Sacrificial Image of the Teacher in Popular Media, 1945-1959
Chapter 6 Fears on Film: Representations of Juvenile Delinquency in Educational Media in Mid-Twentieth-Century AmericaChapter 7 Students without a Cause: Blackboard Jungle, High School Movies, and High School Life; Chapter 8 The Importance of Teaching Ernest: The Fool Goes Back to School in Television and Film Comedies in the Late Twentieth Century; Chapter 9 Prosaic, Perfunctory Pedagogy: Representations of Social Studies Teachers and Teaching in 1970s and 1980s Movies; Chapter 10 Looking at the Man in the Principal's Office; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes filmography and index.
American Education in Popular Media explores how popular media has represented schooling in the United States over the course of the twentieth century. Terzian and Ryan examine prevalent portrayals of students and professional educators while addressing contested purposes of schooling in American society.
Civilization—History.
Culture.
Educational sociology.
Cultural policy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Communication.
Cultural History.
Sociology of Culture.
Sociology of Education.
Cultural Policy and Politics.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Media Studies.