Education in popular culture : telling tales on teachers and learners

This book provides an overview of education as it is represented in popular culture, together with a framework through which educators can interpret these representations in relation to their own professional values and development.

This framework also links the portrayal of teachers with on-going educational and political discourses.

Demonstrating how popular culture both reflects and constructs social and professional ideas about the teacher, the book looks at a number of themes central to current debates about education such as: sexuality of teachers and of pupils, bullying, pupil rebellion and underachievement, school as a community, and lifelong learning.