Diane Conrad is professor of drama and theatre education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta, Canada.Monica Prendergast is professor of drama and theatre education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.

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• Part I: Teacher Reflections/Reflections on TeachersChapter 1: Three Perspectives on Freedom Writers: Considering Teaching Across the Career Span by Jaime L. BeckChapter 2: Characteristics of a Successful Learner Applied to Why Shoot The Teacher? by Phil DucheneChapter 3: The Roles We 'Were Born to Fill': Thinking about Performing Teaching with Mona Lisa Smile by Dorothy MorrisseyChapter 4: A Curriculum of Diversity in Monsieur Lazhar by Jenny OsorioChapter 5: Laughing to Learn: Irony in Election by Carl Leggo and Claire AhnPart II: Teachers as Heroes or AntiherosChapter 6: The Light and Dark Archetypes of Teachers: What Can Matilda Tell us about Teacher Identity? by Angelina AmbrosettiChapter 7: The Problem with Mr. Holland: The Portrayal of Music Teachers in Film – Mr. Holland’s Opus by Nancy Curry and Jeffrey CurryChapter 8: The Politics of Representation of Pedagogues in Nollywood: A Critical Analysis of Somewhere in Africa: The Cries of Humanity by Taiwo Afolabi and Stephen OkpadahChapter 9: An Unlikely Revolution: Portrayals of Teaching in Strictly Ballroom by Anita HallewasChapter 10: Good Teacher/Bad Teacher…Is that all we are? by Patricia JaggerPart III: Pedagogies/Pedagogical MomentsChapter 11: O Brave New World? The Role of Arts Education as presented in the film Hunky Dory by Claire Coleman and Jane LutonChapter 12: “You’re not Hardcore, unless you Live Hardcore”: Exploring Pedagogical Encounters in School of Rock by Mitchell McLarnonChapter 13: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and the Pedagogy of Misdirection by Matthew Krehl Edward Thomas and Bernadette Walker-GibbsChapter 14: Playfulness, Relationships, and Worldviews: Indigenous Pedagogy and Conrack by Matthew “Gus” GusulChapter 15: Bill and Ted’s Assessable Adventure: A Frame Analysis of Assessment Representations in Popular Culture – Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure by Rachael Jacobs Part IV: Ethics and Desire in TeachingChapter 16: Teaching as a Moral Act: Reflections on Five Plays Featuring Teachers and Students (Shaw’s Pygmalion, Kanin’s Born Yesterday, Riml’s RAGE, Mamet’s Oleanna, and Russell’s Educating Rita) by Monica PrendergastChapter 17: Granting “the Wherewithal to Resist”: The Erotic as Pedagogical Supplement in Alan Bennett’s The History Boys by Ian Tan Xing Long Chapter 18: Why are You Doing This? Negotiating the Gift of Education in Development Work in Nepal: Kathmandu – A Mirror in the Sky by Ruth Hol Mjanger, in dialogue with Bibek Shakya, Reiny de Witt and Meena Subba KarkiChapter 19: Learning with Brecht: Exploring the Learning-to-Read-and-Write-Scene in The Mother by Stig A. ErikssonChapter 20: Teaching, Fantasy and Desire: Me and Mona Lisa Smile by Kate Bride and edited by Elizabeth YeomanPart V: Destabilising Perspectives of Teachers and TeachingChapter 21: Wrestling with Vulnerabilities & the Potential for Difference: The Pedagogy of Drug Use in Half Nelson by Diane ConradChapter 22: The Seductress in the Classroom: Female Teacher as Erotic Object and Fantasy in The Piano Teacher by Melissa Tamporello Chapter 23: Knowing Where We Came From: An Examination of the One-act play Education is Our Right by Carmen Rodríguez de FranceChapter 24: Art School Confidential: Profound Offence or Just Good Fun? by Anita Sinner and Thibault ZimmerChapter 25: Emancipatory Reaggregation of the Irrational Man: (Im)moral Possibilities of an Existential, Lived-Curriculum by Sean Wiebe and Pauline Sameshima