Indecent Proposals: Teachers in the Movies

Professional Risk: Sex, Lies, and Violence in the Films about Teachers

“…), anthropological and gender analyses. We also analyzed monographs and articles devoted to film images of school and university teachers (Ayers, 1994;Bauer, 1998;Beyerbach, 2005;Brown, 2015;Bulman, 2005;Burbach, Figgins, 1993;Conklin, 2008;Considine, 1985;Crume, 1988;Dalton, 2004;Doherty, 2003;Edelman, 1983;Ehlers, 1992;Farhi, 1999;Gauthier, 1996;teachers-magicians and self-sacrificing idealists significantly lost their positions at the turn of the 19 th and 20 th centuries.…”

Legal, Tender: The Deferred Romance of Pedagogical Relation in The Paper Chase

“…Researchers such as Sandra Weber and Mitchell (1995), Bauer (1998), andDalton (2004) have made the case that we draw our collective understanding of the teacher not only from lived experiences of our own teachers, as Britzman claims, but from an idea of the teacher that circulates as a recognizable form in our cultural contexts. Drawing from television, popular literature, and film, these authors have argued that popular images of teaching shape both students' and teacher's expectations of what good teachers ought to be, how they ought to look, and what they ought to do.…”

“…2 In this paper, we look at the structures of pedagogical relations that educe desires between teacher and student in an effort to understand the problematic images of teachers and students in films as well as these images' possible contributions to teaching practices. Following those theorists who claim that the filmic commonplace of the teacher-as-lover reflects an underlying erotic charge in our social expectations of educational relationships (Bauer 1998;Dalton 2004;Weber and Mitchell 1995) we question where this charge might originate in the educational relationship as an available normative structure. In other words, if artistic images can help us to see the conditions of possibility at play in the work of teaching, how can we understand teaching identity not in the erotic longing of particular teachers and students, but in the relational structures that condition and regulate students' and teachers' desires?…”

Representing “U”: Popular Culture, Media, and Higher Education

“…Skill and experience as a schoolteacher sometimes renders fluidity between school and university positions so a high school English teacher follows the student character to college in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959Gillis ( -1963 and assumes the role of college English professor (Dalton & Linder, 2008). Scholarship about teachers often conflates the roles of teacher and professor (Bauer, 1998;Dalton, 2007;Harris, 2009;Schwartz, 1960). However, this choice potentially distorts and limits the analysis of this educative role in higher education.…”