Teaching and Learning on Screen

Mark Readman is Principal Academic in Media Education at Bournemouth University, UK, where he teaches reflective practice at Masters and Doctoral level on professionally oriented programs. His research and publications include work on the rhetorics of creativity, screenwriting, and the generation of knowledge through practice.

• Introduction.Mark Readman.PART ONE: What I Go to School For.1. Teaching Duquan Weems: Fallacies of the Hero-Teacher Construct as seen in The Wire.Roger Saul.2. O Captain, My Captain!Robin Williams and Transformative Learning in Dead Poets Society, Good Will Hunting and Patch Adams.Penny Spirou.3. Investigating the “Teacher Savior”: Veronica Mars and the Mysteries of Education.Merideth