1st Edition
Teacher Representations in Dramatic Text and Performance Portraying the Teacher on Stage
List of contributors
Foreword
Clay McLeod Chapman
Introduction
Melanie Shoffner & Richard St. Peter
Chapter 1: Unfit to teach: Morality, panic and hazardous teachers
James F. Wilson
Response to Chapter 1: Sexual perversity in our dreams of teaching
James Stillwaggon
Chapter 2: Educating Frank: Mentorship in Willy Russell’s Educating Rita
Richard Corley
Response to Chapter 2: Educating Rita today
Andy Goodwyn
Chapter 3: Fun Home: Representations of a fractured father
Heather Welch
Response to Chapter 3: The complex multiplicities of teaching: Finding the right metaphor
Marshall George
Chapter 4: The teacher’s ethos in William Mastrosimone’s Tamer of Horses
Benny Sato Ambush
Response to Chapter 4: The teacher as savior fallacy
Shelley Nowacek
Chapter 5: Teaching the coach, coaching the teacher
Richard St. Peter
Response to Chapter 5: Reading coaches critically
Luke Rodesiler
Chapter 6: A rocker in teacher’s clothing: Outlandish lessons in School of Rock: The Musical
Pauline Schmidt
Response to Chapter 6: The danger of Deweys: What real teachers face
Lisa Scherff
Chapter 7: A holey trinity: Crises of communion in John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt
Jeff Spanke
Response to Chapter 7: Faith and futurity: Embracing the struggle
Julie Gorlewski
Biography
Melanie Shoffner is Professor of Education at James Madison University, USA.
Richard St. Peter is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Northwestern State University, USA.
