Education 167 - Education and Film
Spring
2019
02
4.00
Catherine Tebaldi
TU TH 2:30PM 3:45PM
UMass Amherst
13916
Emerson Room 140
ctebaldi@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 Undergraduate Freshmen only.