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Every week your hosts Sean and Shain, two teacher friends from Birmingham, discuss a film or other form of popular culture, focusing on the themes of teaching and education.
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Every week your hosts Sean and Shain, two teacher friends from Birmingham, discuss a film or other form of popular culture, focusing on the themes of teaching and education.
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1 SPECIAL EPISODE: The Trojan Horse Affair 1:00:59
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1:00:59This week Shain is joined by her sisters Sara and Anisa to discuss the Trojan Horse Affair, in light of the recent Serial podcast series (presented by Brian Reed fellow Brummie Hamza Syed). As three proud Muslim Brummies, Shain and her sisters have been directly affected by the scandal; here they recount their experiences both inside and outside education. Listen to learn about the complexities of the hijab, the damage done by Prevent, the nonsensical implementation of British Values in schools, and the fact that (sadly) everyone has worked with a Sue Packer. Sara is a senior science technician in a secondary school and Anisa is a specialist pharmacist in a hospital.…
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1 Coach Carter (2005): When Basketball Meets Respectability Politics 46:21
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46:21Our first big 'hero coach' film, this time starring Samuel L Jackson as real life high school basketball coach Terence Carter. Carter earns our admiration fo guiding wayward students towards a brighter future through his relentlessly high expectations, but also troubled us with his implication that these young men must always police their language and behaviour to really be accepted.…
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1 Another Round (2020): Do the Danish Do It Better? 41:54
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41:54This week's film, starring Mads Mikkelson, has an intriguing premise: would teaching slightly drunk improve our lessons? We discuss teaching ruts, taboos around male mental health, and consider whether education really is better in Scandinavia...
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1 Election (1999): Do All Teachers Have Unfinished Business? 37:31
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37:31Alexander Payne's deeply cynical comedy presents teachers as frustrated chumps, whilst also taking swipes at the aspirations of Type A students like Reese Witherspoon's Tracey Flick (still her best role - yeah we said it). We talk the importance of civics education and the horrors of school fridges.
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1 Whiplash (2014): The Perils of Perfectionism 45:33
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45:33J.K. Simmons puts in a commanding performance as psychotic music teacher Terence Fletcher, determined to drive Miles' Teller's Andrew to great artistic heights. We discuss his philosophy that praise leads only to mediocrity, as well as considering his somewhat idiosyncratic approach to ensuring a disciplined learning environment. Is such a regimented ideology necessary for artistic excellence, or is it anathema to creativity? All that and Shain helpfully defines the raisinet (turns out that is a thing, despite Sean's scepticism).…
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1 Matilda (1996): Exploring Our Inner Trunchbulls 50:48
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50:48'I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it!' Danny DeVito's Matilda has been one of our most requested films to discuss from the very beginning of the pod, and we finally got round to it (and we think it's one of our best episodes!). We discuss the dichotomy between Agatha Trunchbull and Miss Honey, two extremes of teaching we think are manifest in all practitioners. This leads to us talking about teachers as authority figures, the complexity of school uniform policies, and our own Trunchbull moments (sorry to all fans of whimsical cat ears).…
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1 Kes (1969): The Bad Days of British Education 45:51
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45:51This week we watch Ken Loach's classic debut film Kes (1969), starring then newcomer David Bradley as Billy, a working class boy from Yorkshire with little hope for the future. Loach captures the low expectations and bleak brutality of schools in the 1960s, leading us to discuss corporal punishment, Thatcher's revolution of the education system in the 1980s, and the cruelty of the classroom in the past. Spoiler alert: PE teachers may want to skip this one, as we have yet another sports teacher who is also an absolute monster. We promise some better representation by the end of this series!…
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1 School of Rock (2003): The Joys of Teaching Irresponsibly 58:55
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58:55We're back! In our first episode of Season 2, we talk the Jack Black classic School of Rock (2003), in which a dosser poses as substitute teacher Mr Schneebly and insists his pupils learn the hard rock canon. We discuss whether or not leaders can ever be friends with those they manage, the difficulties of substitute teaching and whether teaching children nothing other than rock is any less biased than the national curriculum. P.S. We had some issues with Shain's audio this week, but all will be fixed next week!…
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1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2010, 2011): Is Education Propaganda? 28:04
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28:04In our last episode of season one, we discuss the darkest Harry Potter films: Deathly Hallows Parts One and Two. We talk Harry's transition to young adulthood, the use of education as propaganda, teachers who scarred us, and McGonagall's fascist turn. (Bloody hell, that all sounds very dark- let's do School of Rock or something next). We're currently coming up with ideas for Season Two in 2021 so please email or DM us with films you'd like us to discuss next!…
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1 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2009): Slughorn, Snape and Slytherin Pride 22:53
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22:53Avid Draco Malfoy fan and university lecturer Dr Lucy Andrew joins us this week to talk all things Slytherin! We discuss Slughorn, Snape's moment of glory as Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, and whether or not some information is too sensitive to share with pupils.
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1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007): Is Harry the Best Teacher at Hogwarts? 27:55
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27:55We're joined this week by Lucy, Sean's colleague and KS4 lead for English. Listen we discuss the brilliance and terror of Imelda Staunton's Umbridge, confess our Hufflepuff shame, and discuss what makes Harry such a brilliant teacher.
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1 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Multiple Safeguarding Issues (2005) 37:12
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37:12In this week's discussion of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, we are joined by self-professed gifologist (and staunch Gryffindor) Ele! We discuss Mad Eye's terrifying lessons, Dumbledore's decision to share politically sensitive information with students and, most importantly of all, the terrible hair decisions made by almost every adolescent character in this film. We also touch on the fact this is the most superficially 'diverse' Harry Potter film due to the inclusion of Cho Chang and the Patil twins, and the gender stereotyping rampant amongst the pupils of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang.…
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1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004): Lupin, Trelawney & Hagrid- Oh My! 29:11
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29:11Education legend Ros Wilson joins us this week to discuss the controversial third Harry Potter novel and film. We meet several new teachers: Lupin (clearly the best Defence Against the Darks Arts teacher in the series), Trelawney (who Sean suggests is misunderstood...) and Hagrid, who, bless him, Ros decides just isn't a teacher. Mischief managed!…
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1 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002): Lockhart = Your Average EduTwitter Celebrity? 27:33
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27:33This week we are lucky enough to be enjoyed by BBC Bitesize's own Mr Firth! He shares his analogy that the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher Gilderoy Lockhart (Kenneth Branagh) typifies the toxic behaviours of your average EduTwitter celebrity. We discuss our Hogwarts houses (with Sean trying to overcome his Hufflepuff shame and overcompensating in the processs...) and the school's appalling safeguarding. Keeping an educational establishment open despite the manifest danger of a deadly hidden menace no-one knows how to mitigate or solve!? Thank god this kind of thing only happens in fiction...…
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1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001): Are you Team Snape or Team McGonagall? 34:06
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34:06In the first of our festive series on the Harry Potter films, we talk all things Hogwarts! Shain is a staunch member of Team Snape and his no nonsense approach to the classroom, while Sean is all for McGonagall's mastery of warm/strict. We discuss which subjects we'd like to teach and how they correlate to real life curricula, Dumbledore as an ideal headmaster (at least at this point...), and think about Hogwarts as an elitist space (albeit one we really, really wanted to go as kids). Mischief managed!…
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