Education 167 - Education and Film
Fall
2019
02
4.00
Jamie Garner
TU TH 2:30PM 3:45PM
UMass Amherst
26824
Melville Room 130
jgarner@umass.edu
What do movies like Mean Girls, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Freedom Writers teach us about education? Do the way films represent school, students, and teaching reflect or reproduce our views about particular students and schools? What and how do movies teach us and why does it matter? This course introduces students to selected essential topics in modern educational theory and practice using depictions of teachers, students, and schools in movies as springboards for inquiry (Gen. Ed. SB, DU)
Open to students in the Exploring Society RAP in Thoreau Hall. This course is affiliated with Exploring Society RAP in Thoreau Hall/Southwest residential area -
Students in Exploring Society RAP will enroll together in "Education and Film" (Education 167). What do movies like Mean Girls, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, and Freedom Writers teach us about education? Do the way films represent school, students, and teaching reflect or reproduce our views about particular students and schools? What and how do movies teach us and why does it matter?
In this course we will:
(1) Examine Hollywood representations of teaching and schooling- in other words, watch movies
(2) Analyze film as both a product and producer of American society and culture
(3) Learn to identify and understand dominant educational ideologies and the real world impact these ideologies have
(4) Conduct media analysis based on race, class, gender, and sexuality
(5) Reflect on our own identities and educational experiences
(6) Have Fun!
Students in Exploring Society RAP will enroll together in "Education and Film" (Education 167). What do movies like Mean Girls, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, and Freedom Writers teach us about education? Do the way films represent school, students, and teaching reflect or reproduce our views about particular students and schools? What and how do movies teach us and why does it matter?
In this course we will:
(1) Examine Hollywood representations of teaching and schooling- in other words, watch movies
(2) Analyze film as both a product and producer of American society and culture
(3) Learn to identify and understand dominant educational ideologies and the real world impact these ideologies have
(4) Conduct media analysis based on race, class, gender, and sexuality
(5) Reflect on our own identities and educational experiences
(6) Have Fun!