Teacher Representations in Dramatic Text and Performance: Portraying the Teacher on Stage

ISBN-13: 9780367777807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 128 str.

Melanie Shoffner; Richard St Peter

Opis

This book examines representations of the teacher on stage - in both theatrical performances and dramatic text - in order to demonstrate how these representations have shaped society’s perceptions of educators in and out of the classroom.

Spis treści

List of contributors

Foreword

Clay McLeod Chapman

Introduction

Melanie Shoffner & Richard St. Peter

Chapter 1: Unfit to teach: Morality, panic and hazardous teachers

James F. Wilson

Response to Chapter 1: Sexual perversity in our dreams of teaching

James Stillwaggon

Chapter 2: Educating Frank: Mentorship in Willy Russell’s Educating Rita

Richard Corley

Response to Chapter 2: Educating Rita today

Andy Goodwyn

Chapter 3: Fun Home: Representations of a fractured father

Heather Welch

Response to Chapter 3: The complex multiplicities of teaching: Finding the right metaphor

Marshall George

Chapter 4: The teacher’s ethos in William Mastrosimone’s Tamer of Horses

Benny Sato Ambush

Response to Chapter 4: The teacher as savior fallacy

Shelley Nowacek

Chapter 5: Teaching the coach, coaching the teacher

Richard St. Peter

Response to Chapter 5: Reading coaches critically

Luke Rodesiler

Chapter 6: A rocker in teacher’s clothing: Outlandish lessons in School of Rock: The Musical

Pauline Schmidt

Response to Chapter 6: The danger of Deweys: What real teachers face

Lisa Scherff

Chapter 7: A holey trinity: Crises of communion in John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt

Jeff Spanke

Response to Chapter 7: Faith and futurity: Embracing the struggle

Julie Gorlewski

O autorze

Melanie Shoffner is Professor of Education at James Madison University, USA.

Richard St. Peter is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Northwestern State University, USA.