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American education in popular media : from the blackboard to the silver screen / edited by Sevan G. Terzian and Patrick A. Ryan.

Contributor Terzian, Sevan G.

Imprint:New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Descriptionxii, 229 pages ; 23 cm

Note:Includes index.

Note:Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Popular Media Representations of American Schooling from the Past; Sevan G. Terzian and Patrick A. Ryan2. The College Man in Popular Fiction: American Magazines and the Vision of the Middle-Class Man, 1890-1915; Daniel A. Clark3. "A Touch of Risquity": Teachers, Perception, and Popular Culture in the Progressive Era; Michelle Morgan4. "Spirit of Education": The Gendered Vision of Compulsory Schooling in Mass Magazine Art, 1908-1938; Heather A. Weaver5. Chalk It Up To Experience: The Sacrificial Image of the Teacher in Popular Media, 1945-1959; Patrick A. Ryan6. Fears on Film: Representations of Juvenile Delinquency in Educational Media in Mid-Twentieth Century America; Amy Martinelli7. Students Without a Cause: Blackboard Jungle, High School Movies, and High School Life; Daniel Perlstein and Leah Faw8. The Importance of Teaching Ernest: The Fool Goes Back to School in Television and Film Comedies in the Late Twentieth Century; Andrew L. Grunzke9. Prosaic, Perfunctory Pedagogy: Representations of Social Studies Teachers and Teaching in 1970s and 1980s Movies; Robert L. Dahlgren10. Looking at the Man in the Principal's Office; Kate Rousmaniere.

Note:"American Education in Popular Media explores how popular media including mass magazines, radio, film, and television have 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"-- Provided by publisher.



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Terzian, Sevan G.
Ryan, Patrick A.
Subject:
Education -- United States -- Public opinion.
Public opinion -- United States.
Public schools -- United States -- Public opinion.
Mass media criticism -- United States.