Butches, Bullies and Buffoons: Images of Physical Education Teachers in the Movies

McCullick, Bryan A.; Belcher, Don; Hardin, Brent; Hardin, Marie

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“…About 10 years ago my colleagues and I published a study on the images of PE teachers in film (McCullick et al 2003). I still get e-mails about that study from the public and popular press when a movie about teachers comes out in theaters.…”

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From the cheap seats: one consideration of school-based PE's position in contemporary American schools

McCullick

2013

Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy

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Background: As the USA enters the second decade of the twenty-first century, it does so in a polarized political, social, and educational climate heretofore unseen in its relatively short history. Such a climate has implications for what role schools play in American society and especially how school-based physical education (SBPE) may need to reinvent how and what it contributes to the schooling of American children and, ultimately, the common good. Currently, SBPE receives verbal endorsement from the public and politicians yet little in the way of policy and financial support from legislators at national, state, and local levels. Aims: The purpose of this essay is to present a US-centered perspective on the current 'position' of SBPE and offer some modest (and hardly earth-shattering) suggestions for the immediate future from the perspective of a mid-career physical education teacher educator. Recommendations are made that may enable SBPE to make valuable contributions (perhaps even more that it currently does) and, hopefully, remove SBPE from the divided debate on what public schooling should include and how it should be provided.

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From the cheap seats: one consideration of school-based PE's position in contemporary American schools

McCullick

2013

Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy

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“…Unfortunately, high school PE has not improved since then. Descriptions of high school PE programs in the professional literature and depictions in the media have been for the most part critical and, at times, harsh (e.g., Ennis, 2000;Locke, 1992;McCullick, Belcher, Hardin, & Hardin, 2003;O'Sullivan, Siedentop, & Tannehill, 1994).…”

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Schwager¹

2014

Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance

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“…-positive (super)hero (often a male, recently employed as a school teacher) who reeducates an aggressive and disobedient class (Ayers, 1994;Beyerbach, 2005;Beyerbach, 2005;Burbach, Figgins, 1993;Considine, 1985;Dalton, 2004;Edelman, 1983;Farhi, 1999;Giroux, 1993;Joseph, Burnaford, 1994;Reyes, Rios, 2003;Ryan, 2008;Trier, 2000;2001;Umphlett, 1984); -a negative personage who hates students (in some cases, he/she can be even a robot-killer or an alien) (Joseph, Burnaford, 1994;Long, 1996;Ryan, 2008;Trier, 2000;2001); -a loser / clown, outsider bored with his job (Bulman, 2005;Hill, 1995;Hinton, 1994;Joseph, Burnaford, 1994;Lafferty, 1945;Long, 1996;McCullick et al, 2003;Reynolds, 2007;2009;Ryan, 2008;Trier, 2000;2001;Umphlett, 1984); -a bureaucrat-administrator (Joseph, Burnaford, 1994;Long, 1996;Ryan, 2008;Trier, 2000;2001;Wells, Serman, 1998).…”

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Professional Risk: Sex, Lies, and Violence in the Films about Teachers

2018

European Journal of Contemporary Education

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Pedagogical issues are rather popular in the world's cinematography. Images of school and university teachers occupy a special place in it. Hoping to attract as many viewers as possible the cinematography prefers to refer not to everyday routine education process but to "hot spots" of teaching associated mainly with sex, lies and violence (in this regard deception is successfully combined with narrative moves of violence and sex) in recent decades.

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Butches, Bullies and Buffoons: Images of Physical Education Teachers in the Movies

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From the cheap seats: one consideration of school-based PE's position in contemporary American schools

From the cheap seats: one consideration of school-based PE's position in contemporary American schools

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