The Motion Picture and the Teacher
Author : Hardy Rundell Finch
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 43,7 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Motion pictures in education
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Author : Hardy Rundell Finch
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 43,7 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Motion pictures in education
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Author : Todd Oppenheimer
Publisher : Random House
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 17,63 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 0307432211
The Flickering Mind, by National Magazine Award winner Todd Oppenheimer, is a landmark account of the failure of technology to improve our schools and a call for renewed emphasis on what really works. American education faces an unusual moment of crisis. For decades, our schools have been beaten down by a series of curriculum fads, empty crusades for reform, and stingy funding. Now education and political leaders have offered their biggest and most expensive promise ever—the miracle of computers and the Internet—at a cost of approximately $70 billion just during the decade of the 1990s. Computer technology has become so prevalent that it is transforming nearly every corner of the academic world, from our efforts to close the gap between rich and poor, to our hopes for school reform, to our basic methods of developing the human imagination. Technology is also recasting the relationships that schools strike with the business community, changing public beliefs about the demands of tomorrow’s working world, and reframing the nation’s systems for researching, testing, and evaluating achievement. All this change has led to a culture of the flickering mind, and a generation teetering between two possible futures. In one, youngsters have a chance to become confident masters of the tools of their day, to better address the problems of tomorrow. Alternatively, they can become victims of commercial novelties and narrow measures of ability, underscored by misplaced faith in standardized testing. At this point, America’s students can’t even make a fair choice. They are an increasingly distracted lot. Their ability to reason, to listen, to feel empathy, is quite literally flickering. Computers and their attendant technologies did not cause all these problems, but they are quietly accelerating them. In this authoritative and impassioned account of the state of education in America, Todd Oppenheimer shows why it does not have to be this way. Oppenheimer visited dozens of schools nationwide—public and private, urban and rural—to present the compelling tales that frame this book. He consulted with experts, read volumes of studies, and came to strong and persuasive conclusions: that the essentials of learning have been gradually forgotten and that they matter much more than the novelties of technology. He argues that every time we computerize a science class or shut down a music program to pay for new hardware, we lose sight of what our priority should be: “enlightened basics.” Broad in scope and investigative in treatment, The Flickering Mind will not only contribute to a vital public conversation about what our schools can and should be—it will define the debate.
Author : Edgar Dale
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 48,43 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Motion pictures
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Author : National Council of Teachers of English
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 1965
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780136030508
Author : American Council on Education
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Audio-visual education
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Author : American Council on Education. Committee on Motion Pictures in Education
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,14 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Motion pictures in education
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Author : Charles Francis Hoban
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Motion pictures in education
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Author : Robert L. Dahlgren
Publisher : Springer
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 49,41 MB
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9463009655
In From Martyrs to Murderers, the author explores the connections between the dark, unflattering representations of public schools, teachers and teaching in popular Hollywood films and the conservative attacks on public education that have culminated in a generation of neo-liberal standards reform measures. The author’s analysis is based on a survey of 60 movies that feature significant interactions between public school teachers and their students. This study employed a textual analysis method involving viewing the films alongside original script material, which reveals that the narratives involving public schools during the late 20th century and early 21st century are distinct from those involving other types of schools or eras. Rather than the romantic figures of earlier portraits, such as Eve Arden’s beloved Our Miss Brooks in the 1940s and 1950s radio and television serial, these teachers are consistently portrayed as negative archetypes, thus providing a rationale for the school reform agenda of the 1980s. The sheer repetition of these damaging images in Hollywood products of the period made the American public more susceptible to the deceptive arguments outlined in A Nation at Risk, the seminal 1983 report that provided the blueprint for the standards reform movement that has dominated education policy for the past generation. This work thus develops upon the critical perspectives of educational historians and social studies educators who have probed this turning point in the history of American schooling. It also offers an alternative means of viewing the reality of life in the nation’s public institutions.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,69 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Motion pictures in education
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Author : Mary M. Dalton
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN :
"The Hollywood Curriculum is a sophisticated and thoughtful look at the portrayal of teachers in film and television in an exceptionally accessible way. Dalton draws on some of the most relevant and exciting theory to evaluate teacher films and demonstrates a masterful insight into the worlds of education and film studies. This book is a must-read for those interested in exploring the intersection of teaching, curriculum, film/television, and society, and is an outstanding contribution to the literature."-Alan S. Marcus, Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Connecticut; Author of Celluloid Blackboard: Teaching History with Film and Teaching History with Film: Strategies for Secondary Social Studies --Book Jacket.