FromHope & GlorytoWaterloo Road
Mediating discourses of 'crises' surrounding schools and schooling in British television drama, 1999-2011
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2929970 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony Blake (Newcastle University, corresponding author), Gail Edwards (0000-0002-1638-004X, Newcastle University) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 784-798 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01596306.2013.728370 |
| OpenAlex | W1982892922 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
Popular television drama is an important discursive site engaging the public with debates about schooling and professional identity. Between 1999 and 2011, external discourses of ‘crisis’ (of academic achievement or students’ mental and emotional health) were mediated as alternative discourses of ‘crisis, failure, and salvation’ in which a Standards agenda predominated, or that of the school as a ‘caring community’. Genre analysis reveals how ‘school’ dramas exploited distinctive narrative types to privilege a particular discourse. Adapting Schatz's (1981 Schatz, T. (1981). Hollywood genres. London: McGraw-Hill. [Google Scholar]) scheme of Hollywood genre types, these dramas are characterised by a narrative strategy of ‘restoration’ of the ‘failing’ secondary (high) school to its public function of raising achievement, or after 2007 of ‘integration’ more concerned with assimilating ‘troubled’ students into the school community. This shift in representation is consistent with, and contributes towards, the ‘rise of therapeutic education’ where the Head Teacher and teacher are portrayed more as counsellor than educator
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Drama · Glory · Hollywood · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Child Development and Digital Technology · Early Childhood Education and Development · Gender Studies · History · Law · Media Influence and Health
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FromHope & GlorytoWaterloo Road
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |