From<i>Hope &amp; Glory</i>to<i>Waterloo Road</i>: mediating discourses of ‘crises’ surrounding schools and schooling in British television drama, 1999–2011

Blake, Anthony; Edwards, Gail

doi:10.1080/01596306.2013.728370

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“…As far as television series are concerned, Banks and Esposito (2002), Blake and Edwards (2013), Gray (2005), and Tillman and Trier (2007) have done some analytical work on teachers’ images. All of these studies were based on American movies and television entertainment – except for Blake and Edwards (2013), whose studies were based on a British television series. Miettunen and Dervin (2014) have examined how teachers are represented in a recent Finnish television series.…”

Section: Problematizing the Media Construction Of Teachersmentioning

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“…Teachers' constructed images or representations in films have been studied by, for example, Beyerbach (2005), Dalton (2010), Giroux (1997), and Reed Scull and Peltier (2007). As far as television series are concerned, Banks and Esposito (2002), Blake and Edwards (2013), Gray (2005), and Tillman and Trier (2007) have done some analytical work on teachers' images. All of these studies were based on American movies and television entertainmentexcept for Blake and Edwards (2013), whose studies were based on a British television series.…”

Section: Teachers In Cultural Productions: Good and Evilmentioning

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The best and most respected teachers in the world?

Punakallio

Dervin

2015

Power and Education

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Adored worldwide for its 'outstanding' education system, Finland has relied on its excellent results in studies of the Programme for International Student Assessment to advertise and sell its education abroad. One of the keys to this success is often attributed to Finnish teachers, who are said to be 'the best and most respected in the world'. This article questions this official narrative by examining the way teachers are perceived by Finnish society through analysing the front-page headlines of the Finnish tabloid Ilta-Sanomat in 2000-2013. To the authors' knowledge, the way teachers are constructed in the Finnish press has not been studied extensively, while international studies, especially from English-speaking countries, highlight negative constructions of teachers in the press and cultural products. The data consist of 81 front pages, which were analysed using three methods: content analysis, discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis. The study of the photographs used on the front covers complements the analyses. The results show that the way Finnish teachers are constructed on the tabloid front pages has changed significantly between 2000 and 2013, and they could signal changes in the way education and the status of teachers are considered in the Nordic country. They also show a shift in the way the power of teachers has been depicted.

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Section: Problematizing the Media Construction Of Teachersmentioning

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Section: Teachers In Cultural Productions: Good and Evilmentioning

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The best and most respected teachers in the world?

Punakallio

Dervin

2015

Power and Education

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Stylistics, pop culture, and educational research

Mandala

2023

ETC

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This paper explores how educational research and stylistics, fields that rarely intersect, can be in closer dialogue in the study of pop culture texts, artefacts of interest to scholars in both disciplines. I establish in a systematized critical interpretive synthesis that educational research tends to treat pop culture texts as documents. I show that this in turn tends to drive content-focused analyses that stay, from a linguistic point of view, at the surface of the texts. In response, I offer a stylistic analysis of a pop culture text, an episode from the situation comedy The Big Bang Theory that features an English language learner. I employ conversation analysis to interpret the dialogue and demonstrate how a linguistic approach opens up readings on the discursive construction of phenomena such as belonging and exclusion.

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FromHope & GlorytoWaterloo Road: mediating discourses of ‘crises’ surrounding schools and schooling in British television drama, 1999–2011

Cited by 2 publications

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The best and most respected teachers in the world?

The best and most respected teachers in the world?

Stylistics, pop culture, and educational research

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