The Hollywood curriculum: Hlho is the "good" teacher?

Abstract

In this article 26 motion pictures (distributed widely in the USA over the past 60years) are analysed to construct a theory of currículum in the movies. Hollywood's "ideal" teachers are defined as those who share a set of character traits found consistently in these films, traits that cut across traditional film genres and remain intact throughtout the eras studied. Those "good" teachers in the movies also operate from a distintive curricular approach identified as "broadly aesthetic-ethical-political", a term explored in the context of Huebner's five value frameworks of curricular thought.