Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2007

Abstract

All real classrooms are saturated in the fictional narratives about education from TV and movies that swirl about thickly and persistently in western culture, yet the influence that these fictions exert on real teachers and real students is seldom examined. This article argues that since these fictional narratives nearly always deal in recycled stereotypes of both students and teachers, and that since they seldom receive critical attention, the influence they exert on real teachers and real students is to mislead, confuse, and impoverish their evaluations of and expectations about the nature of genuine education.

Comments

The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Arts and Humanities in Higher Education , 6 (1), 2007 by SAGE Publications Ltd, all rights reserved. © Marshall Gregory. http://ahh.sagepub.com/