Table of Contents

Introduction: An Invitation to Read and View

Section 1: Teaching

Section 1 Introduction: On Teaching in Film

1. The Teacher Archetype in the Movies

James Rhem

2. From Blackboard To Smartboard: Hollywood’s Perennially Misleading Teacher Heroes

Avram Barlowe and Ann Cook

3. Exploring the Heroic Teacher Narrative with Help From the Trickster

Ian Parker Renga

4. Contending Views of Teaching in Film

Daniel P. Liston

5. Monsieur Lazhar: The Subversive Dance of Relationship and the "Fierce Urgency of Now"

Linda Irwin-DeVitis and Joseph L. DeVitis

Section 2: Learning

Section 2: Introduction: On Learning in Film

6. Pastry, Practice, and the Pursuit of Excellence: A Commentary on Kings of Pastry

Jennie Whitcomb

7. Dilemmas of Becoming in Searching for Bobby Fischer

Kevin O’Connor, Lisa Comparini, Stephen Dine Young, and Anna-Ruth Allen

8. Whale Rider: Culture, Cosmopolitanism, and Unofficial Schooling

Steven Weiland

9. The History Boys and Cosmopolitanism

Daniel P. Liston and Ian Parker Renga

10. A Poetics of Moral Education: Insights from Lee Chang-Dong’s Poetry

David T. Hansen and Kyung Hwa Jung

Section 3: Schooling

Section 3 Introduction: On Schooling in Film

11. Creating Classroom Civility

Megan J. Laverty

12. White Supremacy, Neo/Colonial Education, and the Struggle for Precious Knowledge

José García, Luis Urrieta, Jr., and Eric Ruiz Bybee

13. Dropout Nation: The School to Prison Pipeline, Educational Reform and Caring for African American and Latino Students

Courtney S. Robinson, Luis Urrieta, Jr., and Nydia A. Counts

14. The Dialectical Progression: From The First Year and Waiting for "Superman" to TEACH

James Trier

15. Waiting for "Superman", The Inconvenient Truth Behind "Waiting for ‘Superman’", and Taking Sides in Debates About Public Schools