Teaching with the Screen

<p><em>Teaching with the Screen</em> explores the forms that pedagogy takes as teachers and students engage with the screens of popular culture. By necessity these forms of instruction challenge traditional notions of what constitutes education. Spotlighting the visual spatial and relational aspects of media-based pedagogy using a broad range of critical methodologies–textual analysis interviews and participant observation–and placing it at the intersection of education anthropology and cultural studies this book traces a path across historically specific instances of media that function as pedagogy: Hollywood films that feature teachers as protagonists a public television course on French language and culture a daily television news program created by high school students and a virtual reality training simulation funded by the US Army. These case studies focus on teachers as pedagogical agents (teacher plus screen) who unite the two figures that have polarized earlier debates regarding the use of media and technology in educational settings: the beloved teacher and the teaching machine. </p>