Ed pop

Compiled by Dr Roy Fisher, Dr Ann Harris and Dr Christine Jarvis
School of Education and Professional Development
University of Huddersfield, UK 

The lists below are intended to provide interested readers with a guide to some cultural products that feature education in some way, whether through representations of teachers, learners or educational institutions. They have been produced, essentially, to assist those interested in looking at representations of education in popular culture. In particular they have been produced in support of, and will be of interest to, readers of: 

Cover of Education in Popular Culture bookEducation in Popular Culture: Telling tales on teachers and learners

Roy Fisher, Ann Harris and Christine Jarvis
a book published by Routledge in May 2008.

The authors of the above text are convinced that considering representations of education is a valuable way through which to think about the purposes and practice of education, and to analyse related personal and professional.

These lists are not intended to be comprehensive, or representative, they simply feature some examples of what is ‘out there’.  We should like to thank the many people, too numerous to mention by name, who have kindly brought our attention to items that should be included below.

We should be grateful to receive suggestions of additions in any category, and to hear of any factual errors that may be identified. Please email: r.fisher@hud.ac.uk

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These Education in Popular Culture pages were last updated on 11th November 2008.

 

Academic Books and Papers

Aldgate A and Richards J (1999) Best of British: Cinema and society from 1930 to the present, second edition, London: I. B. Tauris.
Ayers W (2001) ‘A Teacher ain’t nothin’ but a hero: Teachers and teaching in film’, in Joseph P B and Burnaford G E

Barreca R and Denenholz Morse D eds. (1997) The erotics of instruction, Hanover: University Press of New England.
Bauer D M (1998) ‘Indecent proposals: Teachers in the movies’, College English Vol. 60 No. 1 pp. 301-317.
Benn R, Elliott J and Whaley P (1998) Educating Rita and her sisters, Leicester: NIACE.
Besag V E (1989) Bullying and victims in schools, Milton Keynes: Open University.
Brehony K J (1998) ‘”I used to get mad at my school”: A representation of schooling in rock and pop music’, British Journal of Sociology of Education Vol. 19 No. 1 pp. 113-134.
Browne R B ed. (2005) Popular culture across the curriculum: Essays for educators, New York: McFarlane & Co. 

Christian-Smith L (1993) Texts of desire: Essays on fiction, femininity and schooling, London: Falmer Press.
Cocca C (2003)  ‘First word ‘Jail’ , Second Word, ‘Bait’  Slayage, Vol 10. www.slayage.tv, accessed 19th July 2007.
Codell E R (2003) Educating Esme: Diary of a teacher’s first year, New York: Workman Publishing.  
Cohen S (1996) Postmodernism, the new cultural history, film: resisting images of education. Paedagogica Historica XXXII (2) pp. 395-420.

Dalton M M (1995) ‘The Hollywood curriculum: who is the “good” teacher?’ Curriculum Studies, Vol. 3, No.1, pp. 23-44.
Daspit T (2003) ‘Buffy goes to college, Adam murders to dissect’, in South (2003). 
Daspit T and Weaver J A (2000) Popular culture and critical pedagogy, New York, Oxford: Garland Science. 
Daugherty A (2001) ‘Just a girl: Buffy as icon’, in Kaveney R
Donald J (1992) Sentimental education: Schooling, popular culture and the regulation of liberty, London: Verso.

Early F (2002) Staking her claim: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as transgressive woman Warrior, Slayage, 5, www.slayage.tv, accessed 19th July 2007. 
Edgerton  S, Holm G , Daspit T and Farber P eds. (2005) Imagining the academy: higher education and popular culture, London: RoutledgeFalmer.  
Ellsmore S (2005) Carry on, teachers! Representations of the teaching profession in screen culture, Stoke on Trent: Trentham. 
Epstein D and Sears J T eds. (1999) A dangerous knowing: Sexuality, pedagogy and popular culture, London: Cassell.

Farber P, Provenzo E Jr and Holm G eds. (1994) Schooling in the light of popular culture, Albany New Jersey: Suny Press.
Fisher R (1997) ‘”Teachers’ hegemony sucks”: examining Beavis and Butt-head for signs of life’, Educational Studies Vol. 23 No. 3 pp. 417-428.
Fisher R, Harris A and Jarvis C (2008) Education in Popular Culture: telling tales on teachers and learners, London: Routledge
Fitchett A (1999) ‘There were punches that went to my head’,  accessed 24th May 2001.
Flores-Koulish S A (2005) Teacher education for critical consumption of mass media and popular culture, Abingdon: RoutledgeFalmer .   
Foale A (1993) ‘The St. Trinian’s cycle and British film comedy’, The Electronic Journal of British Cinema, accessed 15th August 2005. 
Francis B (2000) Boys, girls and achievement: Addressing the classroom issues, London: Routledge Falmer Press.
The Freedom Writers with Gruwell E (1999) The freedom writers’ diary: How a teacher and 150 teens used writing to change themselves and the world around them, New York: Random House

Giroux H (ed) (1992) Border crossings: Cultural workers and the politics of education, London: Routledge 
Giroux H (1993) ‘Reclaiming the social: Pedagogy, resistance and politics in celluloid culture’, in Collins J, Radner H and Collins A P
Giroux H (2002) Breaking into the Movies: Film and the culture of politics, Oxford: Blackwell
Goodson I (1997) ‘“Trendy Theory” and Teacher Professionalism’, Cambridge Journal of Education,  Vol. 27  No. 1  pp.7-21. 
Goodson I (2003) Professional knowledge, professional lives: Studies in education and change, Buckingham: Open University Press. 
Gosling J (1998) Virtual World of Girls www.ju90.co.uk accessed 6 August 2005.  
Gramsci A (1971) Selections from prison notebooks, London: Lawrence and Wishart.
Greene M (2007) The public school and the private vision, New York: New Press.
Gregson M and Spedding T (2003) Constructing learning environments in initial and continuing post 16 teacher education in the UK, paper presented at the annual conference of the British Educational Research Association, Heriott-Watt university, 11-13 September 2003.
Griffiths M and Troyna B eds. (1995) Antiracism, culture and social justice in education, Stoke-on-Trent, Trentham Books.

Hollows J (2000) Feminism, feminity and popular culture, Manchester: Manchester University Press. 
Hollows J and Moseley R (2005) Feminisms in popular culture, Oxford: Berg publishers.

Jackson B and Marsden D (1962) Education and the working class, Harmondsworth: Penguin. 
Jarvis C (2001) ‘School is Hell: gendered fears in teenage horror’, Educational Studies, Vol. 27 No. 3 pp.257-267.
Jarvis C (2005) ‘Real stakeholder education? Lifelong learning in the Buffyverse,  Studies in the Education of Adults, Vol 37 No.1 pp.31-47.
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, The Columbine Report, http://www.boulderdailycamera.com/shooting/report.html accessed February 2007
Johnson T S (2005) The ‘problem’ of bodies and desires in teaching, Teaching Education, Vol. 16 No. 2 pp.131-149.
Jones A (2004) ‘Social anxiety, sex, surveillance, and the ‘safe’ teacher’, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol. 25 No. 1 pp.53-66.
Jones K and Davies H (2002) ‘Keeping it real: Grange Hill and the representation of the ‘child’s world’ in children’s television drama’, in Buckingham D 
Joseph P B (2001) ‘The ideal teacher: Images in early 20th century teacher education textbooks’, in Joseph P B and Burnaford G E 
Joseph P B and Burnaford G E eds. (2001) Images of school teachers in America, (2nd edition) Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum
Judge H. (1995) ‘The Images of Teachers’, Oxford Review of Education, Vol. 21 No.3 pp.253 -265.

Kantor K, Kantor N, Kantor J, Eaton M and Kantor B (2001) ‘”I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty” The Simpsons as school satire’, in Joseph P B and Burnaford G E 
Kaveney R ed. (2001) Reading the Vampire Slayer, London: Tauris Parke.
Keroes J (1999) Tales out of school: gender, longing, and the teacher in fiction and film, Carbondale and Edwardsville: Souhern Illinois University Press.  
Kilgour M (1995) The rise of the gothic novel, London, New York: Routledge.

Larkin J (1994) Sexual harassment: High school girls speak out, Toronto: Second Story Press. 
Lee Cooper B (2001) ‘Formal education as a lyrical target: Images of schooling in popular music, 1955-1980’, in Oliker M and Krolikowski W 
Little T (2003) ‘High school is Hell. Metaphor made literal in Buffy the Vampire Slayer’, in South J
Lloyd R (2002) Behind these ‘nice’ school walls: a teacher’s nightmare! A teenage jungle! http://www.homeofhere.com   accessed 30th July 2007.
Lyotard J (1984) The postmodern condition: a report on knowledge, Manchester: Manchester University Press.

McCarron K (2000) ‘The family’s value: The parent and child in Point Horror’, Diegesis. Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions, No. 6 pp.8-17.
McCarthy C (2004) ‘Thinking about the cultural studies of education in a time of recession: Learning to Labor and the work and aesthetics of modern life’, in Dolby N, Dimitriadis G and Willis P  
McRobbie A (1982) ‘Jackie: An ideology of adolescent femininity’, in Waites B, Bennett T and Martin G 
McWillliam E (1996) Seductress or schoolmarm: on the improbability of the great female teacher, Interchange Vol. 27 No. 1 pp.1-11.
McWilliam E and Jones A (2005) An unprotected species? On teachers as risky subjects, British Educational Research Journal, Vol. 31 No. 1 pp.109-120. 
Mac an Ghaill M (1994) The making of men: Masculinities, sexualities and schooling, Buckingham: Open University.
MacDonald M (1995) Representing women: myths of feminity in the popular media, London: Hodder Arnold. 
Malson H (1998) The thin woman: feminism, post-structuralism and the social psychology of anorexia nervosa,  London: Routledge.
Marinucci, M. (2003) ‘Feminism and the ethics of violence: Why Buffy kicks ass’, in South J
Medhurst A (2000) ‘If anywhere: Class Identifications and cultural studies academics’, in Munt S R   
Miller J (1996). School for women, London: Virago. 
Miller L (2001) ‘Juvenile delinquency in films during the era of film noir: 1940-59’ in Oliker M and Krolikowski W
Mitchell C and Weber S (1999) Reinventing ourselves as teachers: Beyond nostalgia, London: Falmer Press. 
Munt S R ed. (2000) Cultural studies and the working class: subject to change, London: Cassell.  
Oliker M and Krolikowski W eds. (2001) Images of youth: Popular culture as educational ideology, New York: Peter Lang.

Paule M (2004) You’re on my campus, buddy! Sovereign and disciplinary power at Sunnydale High, Slayage, Vol 15. www.slayage.tv
Peace L and Wisker G (1998) Fatal attractions: Rescripting romance in contemporary literature and film, London: Pluto Press
Pollard A (2005) ‘Real and imagined crises: the construction of political and media panics over education: a response’, Research Intelligence, No. 91 February, pp. 4-15.  
Popkewitz T S and Fendler L eds. (1999) Critical theories in education: Changing terrains oh knowledge and politics, New York: Routledge.  
Pryce S (2006) ‘Sex and the cinema: what American Pie teaches the young’, Sex Education, Vol. 6 No. 4 pp.367-376.    
Pryer A (2001) ‘”What spring does with the cherry trees”: the eros of teaching and learning’, Teachers and Teaching: theory and practice, Vol. 7 No. 1 pp.75-88.

Radford J ed. (1986) The progress of romance: the politics of popular fiction, New York: Routledge.
Radkte L and Stam H eds. (1994) Power/gender social relations in theory and practice, London: Sage Publications.
Radstone S ed. (1988) Sweet dreams, sexuality, gender and popular fictions, London: Lawrence and Wishart.
Reay D (2001) ‘Spice girls, nice girls, girlies and tomboys: Gender discourses, girls’ cultures and femininities in the primary classroom’, Gender and Education, Vol. 13, No. 2 pp.153-166.
Renold E (1997) ‘”All they’ve got on their brains is football”: sport, masculinity and the gendered practices of playground relations’, Sport, Education and Society, Vol. 2 No. 1 pp.5-23.

Shary T (2002) Generation multiplex: the image of youth in contemporary American cinema, Austin: University of Texas Press.  
Sikes P (2006) ‘Scandalous stories and dangerous liaisons: when female pupils and male teachers fall in love’, Sex Education, Vol. 6 No. 3 pp.265-280.
Silberman-Keller D, Bekerman Z, Giroux H A and Burbules N C (eds) (2008) Mirror Images: Popular Culture and Education (Counterpoints, Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education), New York: Peter Lang Pub Inc.  
Simmons R (2002) Odd girl out: the hidden culture of aggression in girls, Orlando: Harcourt.
Skelton C (1997) ‘Primary boys and hegemonic masculinities’, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol. 18. No. 3 pp.439-369.
Smith P K and Sharp S (1994) School bullying: insights and perspectives, London: Routledge.
South J ed. (2003) Buffy the Vampire Slayer and philosophy. Fear and trembling in Sunnydale, Chicago and La Salle Illinois: Open Court.

Tisdell E J and Thompson P M (eds.) (2007) Popular Culture and Entertainment Media in Adult Education, New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education No.115
Trier J (2005) ‘”Sordid Fantasies”: reading popular ‘inner-city’ school films as racilized texts with pre-service teachers; Race, Ethnicity and Education, Vol. 8 No. 2 July 2005 p.171-189. 
Trifonas P (2003) eds. Pedagogies of difference: Rethinking education for social change, London, New York: RoutledgeFalmer .

Usher R and Edwards R (1994) Postmodernism and education, London: Routledge.

Wall B and Zyrd M (2002) ‘Vampire dialectics: Knowledge, institutions and labour’, in Kaveney R
Walkerdine V (1997) Daddy’s girl: Young girls and popular culture, Macmillan: Basingstoke.
Warburton T and Saunders M (1996) ‘Representing teachers’ professional culture through cartoons’, British Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. 44 No. 3 pp.307-325.
Warnock A (1999) Bataille's Columbine: The sacred space of hate, accessed 27 June 2007
Warmington P, Murphy R and McCaig C (2005)  ‘Real and imagined crises: the construction of political and media panics over education’, Research Intelligence, No. 91 February, pp.12-14.  
Weaver J A and Daspit T (2000) Critical pedagogy, popular culture and the creation of meaning, in Daspit T and Weaver J A eds. 
Weber S and Mitchell C (1995) ‘That’s funny, you don’t look like a teacher’, London: Falmer Press.
Weiner G (1994) Feminisms in education: An introduction, Buckingham: Open University Press. 
Werndley A (2003) ‘The isolated teenager convention in Point Horror’, Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions, No. 6 pp.39-45.
West  L, Miller N, O’Reilly D and Allen R eds. (2001) Travellers tales: from adult education to lifelong learning and beyond, proceedings of the 31st annual conference of SCUTREA,  University of East London, July 3-5 pp.58-61.
White C (2003) True confessions: social efficacy, popular culture, and the struggle for schools, Cressskill, NJ: Hampton Press Inc.
White C and Walker T (2007) Tooning In: essays on popular culture and education, Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Wilcox R and Lavery D eds. (2002) Fighting the forces. What’s at stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.
Willis P (2003) ‘Foot soldiers of modernity: the dialectics of cultural consumption and the 21st century school’, Harvard Educational Review, Vol. 73 No. 3 pp.390-415. 
Wilson E (1980) Only halfway to paradise, London: Tavistock.
Wiseman R (2002) Queen bees and wannabees, London: Piatkus

Aldgate A and Richards J (1999) Best of British: Cinema and society from 1930 to the present, second edition, London: I. B. Tauris.
Ayers W (2001) ‘A Teacher ain’t nothin’ but a hero: Teachers and teaching in film’, in Joseph P B and Burnaford G E

Barreca R and Denenholz Morse D eds. (1997) The erotics of instruction, Hanover: University Press of New England.
Bauer D M (1998) ‘Indecent proposals: Teachers in the movies’, College English Vol. 60 No. 1 pp. 301-317.
Benn R, Elliott J and Whaley P (1998) Educating Rita and her sisters, Leicester: NIACE.
Besag V E (1989) Bullying and victims in schools, Milton Keynes: Open University.
Brehony K J (1998) ‘”I used to get mad at my school”: A representation of schooling in rock and pop music’, British Journal of Sociology of Education Vol. 19 No. 1 pp. 113-134.
Browne R B ed. (2005) Popular culture across the curriculum: Essays for educators, New York: McFarlane & Co. 

Christian-Smith L (1993) Texts of desire: Essays on fiction, femininity and schooling, London: Falmer Press.
Cocca C (2003)  ‘First word ‘Jail’ , Second Word, ‘Bait’  Slayage, Vol 10. www.slayage.tv, accessed 19th July 2007.
Codell E R (2003) Educating Esme: Diary of a teacher’s first year, New York: Workman Publishing.  
Cohen S (1996) Postmodernism, the new cultural history, film: resisting images of education. Paedagogica Historica XXXII (2) pp. 395-420.

Dalton M M (1995) ‘The Hollywood curriculum: who is the “good” teacher?’ Curriculum Studies, Vol. 3, No.1, pp. 23-44.
Daspit T (2003) ‘Buffy goes to college, Adam murders to dissect’, in South (2003). 
Daspit T and Weaver J A (2000) Popular culture and critical pedagogy, New York, Oxford: Garland Science. 
Daugherty A (2001) ‘Just a girl: Buffy as icon’, in Kaveney R
Donald J (1992) Sentimental education: Schooling, popular culture and the regulation of liberty, London: Verso.

Early F (2002) Staking her claim: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as transgressive woman Warrior, Slayage, 5, www.slayage.tv, accessed 19th July 2007. 
Edgerton  S, Holm G , Daspit T and Farber P eds. (2005) Imagining the academy: higher education and popular culture, London: RoutledgeFalmer.  
Ellsmore S (2005) Carry on, teachers! Representations of the teaching profession in screen culture, Stoke on Trent: Trentham. 
Epstein D and Sears J T eds. (1999) A dangerous knowing: Sexuality, pedagogy and popular culture, London: Cassell.

Farber P, Provenzo E Jr and Holm G eds. (1994) Schooling in the light of popular culture, Albany New Jersey: Suny Press.
Fisher R (1997) ‘”Teachers’ hegemony sucks”: examining Beavis and Butt-head for signs of life’, Educational Studies Vol. 23 No. 3 pp. 417-428.
Fisher R, Harris A and Jarvis C (2008) Education in Popular Culture: telling tales on teachers and learners, London: Routledge
Fitchett A (1999) ‘There were punches that went to my head’,  accessed 24th May 2001.
Flores-Koulish S A (2005) Teacher education for critical consumption of mass media and popular culture, Abingdon: RoutledgeFalmer .   
Foale A (1993) ‘The St. Trinian’s cycle and British film comedy’, The Electronic Journal of British Cinema,  accessed 15th August 2005. 
Francis B (2000) Boys, girls and achievement: Addressing the classroom issues, London: Routledge Falmer Press.
The Freedom Writers with Gruwell E (1999) The freedom writers’ diary: How a teacher and 150 teens used writing to change themselves and the world around them, New York: Random House

Giroux H (ed) (1992) Border crossings: Cultural workers and the politics of education, London: Routledge 
Giroux H (1993) ‘Reclaiming the social: Pedagogy, resistance and politics in celluloid culture’, in Collins J, Radner H and Collins A P
Giroux H (2002) Breaking into the Movies: Film and the culture of politics, Oxford: Blackwell
Goodson I (1997) ‘“Trendy Theory” and Teacher Professionalism’, Cambridge Journal of Education,  Vol. 27  No. 1  pp.7-21. 
Goodson I (2003) Professional knowledge, professional lives: Studies in education and change, Buckingham: Open University Press. 
Gosling J (1998) Virtual World of Girls www.ju90.co.uk accessed 6 August 2005.  
Gramsci A (1971) Selections from prison notebooks, London: Lawrence and Wishart.
Greene M (2007) The public school and the private vision, New York: New Press.
Gregson M and Spedding T (2003) Constructing learning environments in initial and continuing post 16 teacher education in the UK, paper presented at the annual conference of the British Educational Research Association, Heriott-Watt university, 11-13 September 2003.
Griffiths M and Troyna B eds. (1995) Antiracism, culture and social justice in education, Stoke-on-Trent, Trentham Books.

Hollows J (2000) Feminism, feminity and popular culture, Manchester: Manchester University Press. 
Hollows J and Moseley R (2005) Feminisms in popular culture, Oxford: Berg publishers.

Jackson B and Marsden D (1962) Education and the working class, Harmondsworth: Penguin. 
Jarvis C (2001) ‘School is Hell: gendered fears in teenage horror’, Educational Studies, Vol. 27 No. 3 pp.257-267.
Jarvis C (2005) ‘Real stakeholder education? Lifelong learning in the Buffyverse,  Studies in the Education of Adults, Vol 37 No.1 pp.31-47.
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, The Columbine Report, http://www.boulderdailycamera.com/shooting/report.html accessed February 2007
Johnson T S (2005) The ‘problem’ of bodies and desires in teaching, Teaching Education, Vol. 16 No. 2 pp.131-149.
Jones A (2004) ‘Social anxiety, sex, surveillance, and the ‘safe’ teacher’, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol. 25 No. 1 pp.53-66.
Jones K and Davies H (2002) ‘Keeping it real: Grange Hill and the representation of the ‘child’s world’ in children’s television drama’, in Buckingham D 
Joseph P B (2001) ‘The ideal teacher: Images in early 20th century teacher education textbooks’, in Joseph P B and Burnaford G E 
Joseph P B and Burnaford G E eds. (2001) Images of school teachers in America, (2nd edition) Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum
Judge H. (1995) ‘The Images of Teachers’, Oxford Review of Education, Vol. 21 No.3 pp.253 -265.

Kantor K, Kantor N, Kantor J, Eaton M and Kantor B (2001) ‘”I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty” The Simpsons as school satire’, in Joseph P B and Burnaford G E 
Kaveney R ed. (2001) Reading the Vampire Slayer, London: Tauris Parke.
Keroes J (1999) Tales out of school: gender, longing, and the teacher in fiction and film, Carbondale and Edwardsville: Souhern Illinois University Press.  
Kilgour M (1995) The rise of the gothic novel, London, New York: Routledge.

Larkin J (1994) Sexual harassment: High school girls speak out, Toronto: Second Story Press. 
Lee Cooper B (2001) ‘Formal education as a lyrical target: Images of schooling in popular music, 1955-1980’, in Oliker M and Krolikowski W 
Little T (2003) ‘High school is Hell. Metaphor made literal in Buffy the Vampire Slayer’, in South J
Lloyd R (2002) Behind these ‘nice’ school walls: a teacher’s nightmare! A teenage jungle! accessed 30th July 2007.
Lyotard J (1984) The postmodern condition: a report on knowledge, Manchester: Manchester University Press.

McCarron K (2000) ‘The family’s value: The parent and child in Point Horror’, Diegesis. Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions, No. 6 pp.8-17.
McCarthy C (2004) ‘Thinking about the cultural studies of education in a time of recession: Learning to Labor and the work and aesthetics of modern life’, in Dolby N, Dimitriadis G and Willis P  
McRobbie A (1982) ‘Jackie: An ideology of adolescent femininity’, in Waites B, Bennett T and Martin G 
McWillliam E (1996) Seductress or schoolmarm: on the improbability of the great female teacher, Interchange Vol. 27 No. 1 pp.1-11.
McWilliam E and Jones A (2005) An unprotected species? On teachers as risky subjects, British Educational Research Journal, Vol. 31 No. 1 pp.109-120. 
Mac an Ghaill M (1994) The making of men: Masculinities, sexualities and schooling, Buckingham: Open University.
MacDonald M (1995) Representing women: myths of feminity in the popular media, London: Hodder Arnold. 
Malson H (1998) The thin woman: feminism, post-structuralism and the social psychology of anorexia nervosa,  London: Routledge.
Marinucci, M. (2003) ‘Feminism and the ethics of violence: Why Buffy kicks ass’, in South J
Medhurst A (2000) ‘If anywhere: Class Identifications and cultural studies academics’, in Munt S R   
Miller J (1996). School for women, London: Virago. 
Miller L (2001) ‘Juvenile delinquency in films during the era of film noir: 1940-59’ in Oliker M and Krolikowski W
Mitchell C and Weber S (1999) Reinventing ourselves as teachers: Beyond nostalgia, London: Falmer Press. 
Munt S R ed. (2000) Cultural studies and the working class: subject to change, London: Cassell.  
Oliker M and Krolikowski W eds. (2001) Images of youth: Popular culture as educational ideology, New York: Peter Lang.

Paule M (2004) You’re on my campus, buddy! Sovereign and disciplinary power at Sunnydale High, Slayage, Vol 15. www.slayage.tv
Peace L and Wisker G (1998) Fatal attractions: Rescripting romance in contemporary literature and film, London: Pluto Press
Pollard A (2005) ‘Real and imagined crises: the construction of political and media panics over education: a response’, Research Intelligence, No. 91 February, pp. 4-15.  
Popkewitz T S and Fendler L eds. (1999) Critical theories in education: Changing terrains oh knowledge and politics, New York: Routledge.  
Pryce S (2006) ‘Sex and the cinema: what American Pie teaches the young’, Sex Education, Vol. 6 No. 4 pp.367-376.    
Pryer A (2001) ‘”What spring does with the cherry trees”: the eros of teaching and learning’, Teachers and Teaching: theory and practice, Vol. 7 No. 1 pp.75-88.

Radford J ed. (1986) The progress of romance: the politics of popular fiction, New York: Routledge.
Radkte L and Stam H eds. (1994) Power/gender social relations in theory and practice, London: Sage Publications.
Radstone S ed. (1988) Sweet dreams, sexuality, gender and popular fictions, London: Lawrence and Wishart.
Reay D (2001) ‘Spice girls, nice girls, girlies and tomboys: Gender discourses, girls’ cultures and femininities in the primary classroom’, Gender and Education, Vol. 13, No. 2 pp.153-166.
Renold E (1997) ‘”All they’ve got on their brains is football”: sport, masculinity and the gendered practices of playground relations’, Sport, Education and Society, Vol. 2 No. 1 pp.5-23.

Shary T (2002) Generation multiplex: the image of youth in contemporary American cinema, Austin: University of Texas Press.  
Sikes P (2006) ‘Scandalous stories and dangerous liaisons: when female pupils and male teachers fall in love’, Sex Education, Vol. 6 No. 3 pp.265-280.
Silberman-Keller D, Bekerman Z, Giroux H A and Burbules N C (eds) (2008) Mirror Images: Popular Culture and Education (Counterpoints, Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education), New York: Peter Lang Pub Inc.  
Simmons R (2002) Odd girl out: the hidden culture of aggression in girls, Orlando: Harcourt.
Skelton C (1997) ‘Primary boys and hegemonic masculinities’, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol. 18. No. 3 pp.439-369.
Smith P K and Sharp S (1994) School bullying: insights and perspectives, London: Routledge.
South J ed. (2003) Buffy the Vampire Slayer and philosophy. Fear and trembling in Sunnydale, Chicago and La Salle Illinois: Open Court.

Tisdell E J and Thompson P M (eds.) (2007) Popular Culture and Entertainment Media in Adult Education, New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education No.115
Trier J (2005) ‘”Sordid Fantasies”: reading popular ‘inner-city’ school films as racilized texts with pre-service teachers; Race, Ethnicity and Education, Vol. 8 No. 2 July 2005 p.171-189. 
Trifonas P (2003) eds. Pedagogies of difference: Rethinking education for social change, London, New York: RoutledgeFalmer .

Usher R and Edwards R (1994) Postmodernism and education, London: Routledge.

Wall B and Zyrd M (2002) ‘Vampire dialectics: Knowledge, institutions and labour’, in Kaveney R
Walkerdine V (1997) Daddy’s girl: Young girls and popular culture, Macmillan: Basingstoke.
Warburton T and Saunders M (1996) ‘Representing teachers’ professional culture through cartoons’, British Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. 44 No. 3 pp.307-325.
Warnock A (1999) Bataille's Columbine: The sacred space of hate, accessed 27 June 2007
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Films

Educational institutions, teachers, and learners have featured strongly in the cinema. Films ranging from high farce comedy (The Belles of St. Trinian’s) to sentimental portraits of a teacher (Goodbye, Mr Chips and Mr Holland’s Opus) can tell us something about the way in which society represents teachers, learners and the educational process.

The list below, although not comprehensive, features mainly UK, US, Australasian, and Canadian made films with the addition of a few others that have become well known in the English speaking world. The films are listed in alphabetical order except that the definite article has been ignored when it is the first word in a title. In compiling this section we have relied heavily on Halliwell’s Film Guide, The Radio Times Guide to Films, and The Time Out Film Guide, and We acknowledge Our debt to all three of these publications as well as to many internet sites.   

187. Dir. Kevin Reynolds (1998) US: A teacher traumatised following assault by a student, returns to the classroom and turns to extreme measures to win the respect he craves.
A Beautiful Mind. Dir. Ron Howard(2001) US: A Princeton mathematics genius fights mental illness. Based on the life of John Forbes Nash.  
A Child is Waiting. Dir. John Cassavettes (1963) US: A film that focuses on a spinster who becomes a teacher of children with learning difficulties. 
A Clean Kill. Dir.Roxanne Messina Captor  (1999) US: A writing tutor’s wife dies in consequence of an obsessive woman student. 
A Feast at Midnight. Dir. Justin Hardy (1994) UK: Comedy based on the trials of public school life.
A French Mistress. Dir. Roy Boulting (1960) UK: An attractive new mistress is appointed at a boys’ school. 
A Little Princess. Dir. Walter Lang (1939) US: A father leaves his young daughter at a harsh school in Victorian London. 
A Yank at Eton. Dir. Norman Taurog (1942) US: A rebellious young American is sent to Eton.
A Yank at Oxford. Dir. Jack Conway (1937) UK: An American student learns the ways of Oxford.
Absolution. Dir. Anthony Page (1978) UK: A schoolmaster at a catholic boarding school commits murder. 
All The Right Moves. Dir. Michael Chapman (1983) US: A young American football player strives for a scholarship.
The Allnighter. Dir. Tamar Simon Hoffs (1987) US: Three hedonistic girls party away their final few days at college.  
Almost Summer. Dir. Martin Davidson (1978) US: Light comedy as American high school students elect a new president.
American Friends. Dir. Tristam Powell (1991) UK: An Oxford academic in Victorian times is torn between becoming president of his college and his love for an American woman. 
American Pie.  Dir. Paul Weitz (1999) US: Four students plan to lose their virginity in ostensibly ‘crude’/lewd comedy with underlying ‘wholesome’ message. A trilogy of these films was produced.
Amy. Dir.  Vincent J. McEveety (1981) US: A young woman leaves her husband to teach hearing and sight impaired children.
Amy and Isabelle.  Dir. Lloyd Kramer (2001) US: Based on the Elizabeth Strout novel of the same title. A schoolgirl’s affair with her maths teacher damages her relationship with her mother.  
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. Dir. Gurinder Chadha (2008) UK: An English comprehensive school in Eastbourne is the backdrop to teenage love angst and social observation in the manner of Clueless.
Anne of Windy Poplars.  Dir. Jack Hively (1940) US: An ambitious teacher takes up an appointment in a small town. Sequel to Anne of Green Gables. 
Another Country. Dir. Marek Kanievska (1984) UK: A gay British defector to the Soviets reflects on his public school past.  
Art for Teachers of Children. Dir. Jennifer Montgomery (1995) US: A 14 year old boarding school girl’s consensual relationship with her 28 year old ‘dorm counsellor’.  
Au Revoir Les Enfants. Dir. Louis Malle (1987) France: A schoolboy in occupied France innocently betrays his Jewish friend. Subtitled.

B Monkey. Dir. Michael Radford (1996) UK/US: A female criminal tries to reform and has romance with a schoolteacher. 
Bachelor of Hearts. Dir. Wolf Rilla (1958) UK: A German student finds romance during a year at Cambridge. 
Back To School. Dir. Alan Metter (1986) US: A young man has financial success despite his antipathy to education.  
Bad Education. Dir. Pedro Almodovar (2004) Spain: Two transvestites reflect on the ills of their catholic education.  
The Basketball Diaries. Dir. Scott Kalvert (1995) US: Portrayal of a teenage drug addict that includes a fantasy sequence of a high school gun massacre. Subsequently cited in a lawsuit following a school murder in Kentucky.
Battle Royale Dir. Kinji Fukasaki (2000) Japan: In a Japanese society in turmoil the Government forces school pupils to fight to the death. Japanese dialogue with subtitles.
The Belles of St. Trinians. Dir. Frank Launder (1954) UK: The first in a series of slapstick films centred on a chaotic school for girls (based on Ronald Searle’s cartoons). A new St. Trinian’s film appeared in 2008. 
Bend It Like Beckham. Dir. Gurinder Chadha (2001) UK: A young British Asian girl’s love for playing football brings cultural conflict.    
Beverly Hills 90210: The Graduation. Dir. Victor Lobl, James Whitmore Jr. (1990) US: American high school movie.  
Bigger Than Life. Dir. Nichols Kay (1956) US: Medication transforms an unassuming schoolteacher (for the worse).  
Billy Elliott. Dir. Stephen Daldry  (2000) UK: Family strife during the 1984 miners’ strike when a working class boy pursues his wish to become a ballet dancer.
Billy Madison. Dir. Tamra Davis (1995) US: The dissolute heir to a fortune goes back to school.
Birdman of Alcatraz  Dir. John Frankehheimer (1962) US: A murderer is redeemed by his interest in ornithology.
Black Christmas. Dir. Bob Clark (1974) Canada: A crazed killer is on the loose in a boarding school for girls. 
The Blackboard Jungle. Dir. Richard Brooks (1955) US: Classroom pressures and challenging students test a teacher.       
Blackboards. Dir. Samira Makhmalbaf (2000) Iran: The story of two nomadic teachers, living in the mountains of the Iran/Iraq border, who search the area looking for pupils. Kurdish dialogue with subtitles.
The Blue Angel. Dir. Josef von Sternberg (1930) Germany: A teacher’s doomed relationship with a nightclub star. 
The Blue Angel. Dir. Edward Dmytryk (1959) US: A teacher’s doomed relationship with a nightclub star. A remake of the classic 1930 film of the same title.
Blue Car. Dir. Karen Moncreiff (2001) US: An adolescent girl becomes too dependent on her male teacher.   
Blue Murder at St.Trinian’s. Dir. Frank Launder (1957) UK: One of a series of slapstick films centred on a chaotic school for girls (based on Ronald Searle’s cartoons).
Bottoms Up. Dir. Marlo Zampi (1960) UK: A schoolmaster conman. Comedy based on the television series Whacko! Starring ‘Professor’ Jimmy Edwards.
La Boucher. Dir. Claude Chabrol (1969) France/Italy: The relationship between a village schoolteacher and a sex murderer in France. Subtitles.       
Bowling for Columbine. Dir. Michael Moore (2002) US: Outraged by the Columbine school massacre, Michael Moore’s documentary pursues the American gun lobby. 
Boys. Dir. Stacy Cochran (1995) US: Boarding school based teen drama, as boys smuggle an unconscious girl into their school.
Boys N the Hood. Dir.  John Singleton (1991) US: A young boy’s life in a LA ghetto.
Boys Will Be Boys Dir. William Beaudine (1935) UK: Light comedy as Narkover School is at the centre of a stolen necklace investigation. 
The Breakfast Club. Dir. John Hughes (1985) US: An incompetent teacher at odds with his charges on Saturday detention.
Breaking In. Dir. Bill Forsyth(1989) US: A safebreaker ‘mentors’ a teenager in criminal ways. 
Brick. (2006) Dir. Rian Johnson US: high school become embroiled in noir murder mystery.
Bright Road. Dir. Gerald Mayer (1953) US: A young boy in the West Indies rids his school of bees and develops a love for nature.
The Browning Version. Dir. Anthony Asquith (1951) UK: A ‘broken’ teacher nears the end of his career.  
The Browning Version. (1994) Dir. Mike Figgis UK: A ‘broken’ teacher nears the end of his career. Remake of 1951 film.
Buddga Collapsed Out of Shame. Dir. Hana Makhmalbaf (2008) Iran: A young Afghan girl and her perilous search for education.
Bully. Dir. Larry Clark (2001) US: Based on a real life case, a teenager is pressured to murder his school friend.
Butley. Dir. Harold Pinter (1973) US/UK: An English lecturer confronts personal problems.

Carry On Teacher. Dir. Gerald Thomas (1959) UK: A secondary school has both naughty children and naughty teachers. Children try to prevent the Head teacher from leaving. Part of the British comedy farce Carry On series.
Chariots of Fire. Dir. Hugh Hudson (1981) UK: A student runs for Britain at the 1924 Paris Olympics.
Cherry Falls. Dir. Geoffrey Wright (1999) US: A maniac murders only virgins in a high school. 
Child of Divorce. Dir. Richard Fleischer (1946) US: The impact of divorce on a child.
Child’s Play. Dir. Sidney Lumet (1972) US: Power plays between two feuding masters in a Catholic boarding school for boys. 
Children of a Lesser God. Dir Randa Haines (1986) US: An unorthodox teacher in a school for the hearing impaired.
The Children’s’ Hour. [GB title The Loudest Whisper] Dir. William Wyler (1961) US: A schoolgirl spreads rumours that her teachers are lesbians. See also These Three below.
The Chocolate War. Dir. Keith Gordon (1988) US: Peer pressures on a boy in a catholic school. 
The Chorus: Dir. Christophe Barratier (2005) France: Echoes of Mr Holland’s Opus and Dead Poets’ Society as a kindly new teacher counteracts a cruel boarding school principal and enriches the lives of his students. Subtitled.
The Class. Dir. Laurent Cantet (2009) France: a teacher's life in a tough Parisian school provides an exploration of cultural diversity.
Class Act. Dir. Randall Miller (1992) US: Comedy as a bright student and a badly behaved student exchange identities.  
Class of ’44. Dir. Paul Bogart (1973) US: American college students during in World War 2.
Class of 1984. Dir. Mark Lester (1981) Canada: Sex, drugs and violence cause concern for a new teacher who aims to oust the trouble makers.
Class of 1999. Dir. Mark I. Lester (1989) US: Robots replace teachers in a violent (future based) school. 
Class of 1999 II: The Substitute. Dir. Mark I. Lester (1989) US: Follow up to Class of 1999. A cyborg teacher ‘eliminates’ troublesome students. 
The Class of Miss MacMichael. Dir. Silvio Nartzzano (1978) UK: A schoolmistress battles against her students’ social deprivation in a special needs school.  
Class of Nuke ‘em High. Dir. Richard W. Haines (1986) US: A nuclear installation near to a school mutates students. 
The Clay Bird. Dir. Tareque Masud (2002) Bangladesh: a boy is sent to an Islamic boarding school in 1960s east Pakistan.
Clockwise. Dir. Christopher Morahan (1986) UK: A headmaster (John Cleese) suffers a series of mishaps.
Clockwork Mice. Dir. Vadim Jean (1994) UK: A young teacher and a troubled boy form a special relationship.
Clueless. Dir. Amy Heckerling (1995) US: Social satire and comedy as a rich Beverly Hills schoolgirl learns about life.
Co-ed Call Girl. Dir. Michael Ray Rhodes. (1996) US: A female student gets involved in prostitution. 
College. Dir. James W. Horne (1927) US: A bright student tries to shine at sport to win the heart of a young woman. Silent movie.
College Coach. Dir. William A. Welburn (1933) US: A win at all costs coach tries to turn a college team into the best.
College Confidential. Dir. Albert Zeysmith (1960) US: A professor’s survey into the sex lives of young people leads to trouble.
College Humor. Dir. Wesley Ruggles (1933) US: Comedy as a young man new to college learns that sport and girls are important aspects of ‘academic life’.   
College Rythmn. Dir. Morman Taurog (1934) US: An American college football team assists a department store.
College Scandal. Dir. Elliott Nugent (1935) US: A killer on the loose in an American College preys on male students.
College Swing. Dir. Raoul Walsh (1938) US: If an American college is to receive a large endowment then a less than bright girl must graduate. 
Collegiate. Dir. Ralph Murphy (1935) US: Comedy as a women’s college struggles to survive. 
Conrack. Dir. Martin Ritt (1974) US: An innovative young white male teacher appointed to an all black school does battle with ignorance, racism and bureaucracy.  
Cooley High. Dir. Michael Schultz (1975) US: The lives of a group of Chicago high school students in the mid 1960s.
The Corn is Green. Dir. Irving Rapper (1945) US: At the turn of the 19th Century a schoolteacher sets up a school in a destitute welsh mining village.
The Craft. Dir. Andrew Fleming (1996) US: Four girls rebel against their religious school by becoming pagans and using supernatural powers. 
Cruel Intentions. Dir. Roger Kumble (1999) US: Teen relationships, sex and mean attitudes at a posh boarding school. Cruel Intentions 2 was issued in 2000.

Dangerous Minds. Dir. John N Smith (1995) US: A female ex-Marine returns to teaching.  The film explores the influence of a teacher on disillusioned students.  
Date Bait. Dir. O’Dale Ireland (1960): ‘High school sin’ involving violence, drugs and sex. 
Dazed and Confused. Dir. Richard Linkalater (1993) US: Teenage ‘wasters’ in cult high school film. 
Dead Man On Campus. Dir. Alan Cohn (1998) US: Two college students seek a depressed person to share rooms with after finding out that if a roommate commits suicide they get automatic A grades. 
Dead Man's Curve. Dir. Dan Rosen (1997) US: Black comedy as two students seek the grades necessary to get into Harvard by engineering the ‘suicide’ of their room-mate.
Dead Poets Society. Dir. Peter Weir (1989) US: A creative and inspirational English teacher battles with the bureaucracy of the system. 
Decline and Fall. [aka Decline and Fall of a Birdwatcher]. Dir. John Krish (1968) UK: An Oxford undergraduate experiences a series of unlikely mishaps.   
Detention: Very Special Ed. Dir.  Andy Anderson (2002): A substitute teacher is driven to seek revenge on the students in an out of control high school. 
The Devil’s Playground. Dir. Fred Schepisi (1976) Australia: Issues of faith and sexual awakening are explored in a 1950s catholic boys’ school.
Diabolique. Dir. Jeremiah Chechik (1996) US:A critically dismissed American remake of Les Diaboliques, the 1954 Henri-Georges Clouzo French made film.  A brutal head teacher’s wife and mistress plot his demise in a down at heel school. 
Disturbing Behaviour Dir. David Nutter (1998) US: A school attempts to eliminate individualism.
Dogs. Dir. Burt Brinkemoff (1976) US: Killer dogs are on campus.   
Down to You. Dir. Kos Isacsson  (2000): Student romance is threatened when a girl has the opportunity to study elsewhere.  
Drive Me Crazy. Dir. John Schultz (1999) US: Romantic comedy in high school.

Educating Rita. Dir. Lewis Gilbert (1983) UK: A working class woman’s search for higher education. 
Election. Dir. Alexander Payne (1999) US: A high school election is enlivened by the intervention of a teacher. Comedy satire on American politics.  
Elephant. Dir Gus Van Sant (2003) US: A Columbine massacre inspired film explores ‘motiveless’ high school mass murder without offering ‘explanations’.
Ernest Goes to School.  Dir. Coke Sams (1994) US: Higher Education comedy spoof as scientists transform a janitor into a star student.
Etre et Avoir. Dir. Nicolas Philibert (2002) France: documentary about an infants’ school in France.

The Faculty Dir. Robert Rodriguez (1998) US: Sci-fi horror. Some of the teachers at Herrington High are really aliens – through mind controlling parasites they begin to spread their kind amongst the students. A collection of nerds, loners and other outcast kids band together to save the school. This film has interesting things to say about control; and indoctrination in schools.
Fame.  Dir. Alan Parker (1980) US: Life at the New York School of Performing Arts.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Dir. Amy Heckerling (1982) US: The struggles of a group of teenagers coping with growing up. High school sex comedy that also ‘deals with’ teenage pregnancy.
Father Goose Dir. Ralph Nelson (1964) US: A group of schoolgirls and their teacher hide from the Invading Japanese on a South Sea island during World War 2. 
Fear in the Night. Dir. Jimmy  Sangster (1972) UK: A schoolgirl commits murder. 
Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Dir. John Hughes (1986)  US: A high school student plays truant in Chicago.
Fighting Back. Dir. Lewis Teague (1982) Australia: A rebellious teenager causes problems in school.
Finding Forrester.  Dir.  Gus Van Sant  (2000) US: An established novelist tutors a young black basketball player who aspires to become a writer. 
Flirting. Dir. John Duigan (1989) Australia: Romance blossoms for two pupils when an all boys and an all girls school get together.
Freedom Writers. Dir. Richard LaGravenese (2007) US: A young lawyer turns her back on money to teach kids from the wrong side of the tracks.   
French Without Tears. Dir. Anthony Asquith (1939) UK/US: Comedy as young Englishmen learning French at a language school in France compete for the favours of the same young woman. 
The Freshman. Dir. Fred Newmeyer (1925) US: An inept college student becomes a star American footballer. Silent movie.
Freshman Fall. Dir. Bethany Rooney (1996) US: Date rape at a campus party and its aftermath. 
Fun at St. Fanny’s. Dir. Maurice Elvery (1956): Double entendre abounds as the headmaster tries to save his school from bankruptcy.

Get Over It. Dir. Tommy O’Haver (2001) US: A young man tries to win back his girlfriend by joining her in the school play. 
The Getting of Wisdom. Dir. Bruce Beresford (1977) Australia: A Melbourne girls boarding in school in 1910 provides the backdrop to this film based on Henry Handel Richardson’s novel.
Getting Straight. Dir. Richard Rush (1970) US: A Vietnam vet political activist goes back to college on returning from the war. 
The Ghost of St.Michael’s. Dir. Marcel Varnel (1941) UK: School children relocate to a haunted Scottish castle during the blitz. Amusing classroom scenes as an incompetent master is exposed by a bright boy. 
Girl’s Dormitory. Dir. Irving Cummings (1936) US: A college girl’s love for the Principal. 
Girls in Uniform. Dir. Leontine Sagan (1931) Germany: Lesbian love story as a student in a Prussian boarding school falls for her teacher.
Girl’s Town. Dir. Jim McKay (1996) US: High school students plot revenge following the suicide of their raped friend.
Good Morning Boys. Dir. Marcel Varnel (1937) UK: A schoolmaster wins a school trip to Paris.  
Good Morning, Miss Dove. Dir.Henry Koster (1955) US: A spinster school mistress’s story and her impact on a small town.
Good Will Hunting. Dir. Gus Vant Sant (1997) US: A genius emotionally troubled cleaner at a top American university fights to realise his potential.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Dir. Sam Wood (1939) UK/US: An ageing schoolmaster reflects on his career. Based on J Hilton’s 1934 novel of the same title.   
Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Dir. Herbert Ross(1969) UK/US: An aging schoolmaster reflects on his career. A musical remake of the 1939 classic film of the same title. 
The Goose Steps Out. Dir. Will Hay/Basil Dearden (1942) UK: An incompetent Second World War schoolteacher is the double of a German general.  Wartime comedy.
Grease. Dir.  Randal Kleiser  (1978) US: Musical based on life and love in the ‘Rydell High’ American high school. 
Grease 2. Dir. Patricia Birch (1982): A sequel to Grease. An English boy with problems joins the school.
The Great Man Votes. Dir. Carson Canin  (1938) US: Comedy based on an alcoholic professor.
The Great St.Trinian’s Train Robbery. Dir.  Frank Launder (1966) UK: British period comedy as the farcical St.Trinian’s school plays host to train robbers. 
Gregory’s Girl. Dir. Bill Forsyth (1980) UK: Sexual awakening and gender issues in a Scottish school. 
Gregory’s Two Girls. Dir. Bill Forsyth (1999) UK: Returning to his own school as a teacher Gregory is torn between the attentions of a teaching colleague and the allure of a fifth-former. Sequel to Gregory’s Girl.
Grosse Pointe Blank. Dir. George Armitage (1997) US: Black comedy drama as a professional assassin attends his high school reunion.   
The Guinea Pig  Dir. Roy Boulting (1948) UK: A working class youth is sent to public school as a social experiment. Masters and boys are horrified by his uncouth behaviour and bad manners, but by the end he becomes ‘civilised’ and full of gratitude for the opportunity given.

Half Nelson. Dir. Ryan Fleck (2007) US: an idealistic (white) New York teacher with a drug problem  and his friendship with a black girl he teaches. 
Halloween H20 – 20 Years Later. Dir. Steve Miner (1998) US: High school horror with a murderer at large.
The Happiest Days of Your Life. Dir. Frank Launder (1950) UK: Owing to a war-time evacuation error a boys’ school is to share its buildings with a girls’ school. 
Happy Together. Dir. Mel Damski  (1989) US: Comedy romance in college.
Happy We. Dir. Lasse Hallstrom (1983) Sweden: Three old university pals have a reunion and remember the good old days.
Harriet the Spy. Dir. Bronwen Hughes (1996) US: The observations in a schoolgirl’s secret notebook lead to trouble. 
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Dir. Chris Columbus (2001): Harry goes to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Dir. Chris Columbus (2002): Harry is in his second year at Hogwarts School. 
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Dir. Alfonso Cuaron (2004): Further adventures of Harry Potter.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Dir. David Yates (2007): More further adventures of the boy wizard.
Heathers. Dir.   Michael Lehmann (1989) US: Dark comedy that satirises high school peer groups and school interaction.   
Heavenly Creatures. Dir. Peter Jackson (1994) New Zealand. Teenage love between two young women. Based on a true story set in parochial 1950s New Zealand.
Heavenly Pursuits.  Dir. Charles Gormley (1986) UK: Miracles at a catholic school in Glasgow.  
Helen Keller – The Miracle Continues.  Dir. Alan Gibson   (1984): A teacher supports her student in late nineteenth century Massachusetts. 
Hell Hole High. Dir. Alex Mayer (2003): Three high school students are sent to a reform school full of deranged teachers. 
Her Costly Affair. Dir. John Patterson  (1996): A female professor’s affair with a student takes a sinister turn. 
Here Come the Co-Eds. Dir. Jean Yarborough (1945) US: Abbott and Costello vehicle – the two are caretakers in a high class school.
Hiding Out    Dir. Bob Girbaldi (1987) US: A gangster on the run from other gangsters pretends to be a student.  
High School.  Dir. Frederick Wiseman (1968) US: Documentary focusing on student-teacher relationships. 
High School Big Shot. Dir. Joel Rapp (1959) US: Things go wrong for a student when he attempts to impress the only girl in his class,     
High School Caesar. Dir. O’Dale Ireland  (1960) US: A delinquent runs protection rackets and cheats his way through school. 
High School Confidential.  Dir. Jack Arnold (1958) US: Sex and drugs and delinquents in a 1950s American high school.     
High School Hellcats. Dir. Edward L. Bernds (1958) US: A rebellious girl high school gang, with moral messages.
High School High. Dir. Hart Bochner (1996) US: A supply teacher comes to terms with the classroom challenges posed by teenage hoodlums. Comedy spoofing Dangerous Minds.
High School Musical. Dir. Kenny Ortega (2006) US: The production of a high school musical divides the school. 
High Time. Dir. Blake Edwards (1960) US: Musical comedy as a millionaire returns to college and finds romance.
Higher Learning. Dir. John Singleton (1995) US: A university campus is the scene of peer pressure and racism. 
The History Boys. Dir. Nicholas Hytner (2006) UK: based on Alan Bennett’s successful stage play - a group of grammar school boys aim for Oxbridge, amidst staffroom rivalries and homosexual ambiguity.  
The Hole. Dir. Nick Hamm (2001) UK/France: A nerdy student takes his revenge by imprisoning classmates in a remote and abandoned nuclear installation.
Hoosiers. Dir. David Anspaugh (1986): A dishonoured coach turns around the fortunes of a school basketball team.  
Horse Feathers. Dir. Norman Z McLeod (1932) US: Marx brothers comedy. Groucho becomes head of a college.
The Housemaster. Dir. Herbert Brenon (1938) UK: A new headmaster imposes strict discipline in an English boys school – and meets opposition from a housemaster.    
How I Got into College. Dir. Savage Steve Holland. (1989) US: Comedy as an ‘ordinary Joe’ is allowed through a special scheme to enter the same elite college as the girl he loves.

If. Dir. Lindsay Anderson (1968) UK: A surreal and violent vision of an English Public School where bullying prefects provoke revolutionary terror.
In and Out. Dir.  Frank Oz (1997) US: An ex-student ‘outs’ an English teacher as being gay.
Inbetweeners. Dir. Darren Fisher(2000) UK: University based comedy romance.
Indecent Proposal. Dir. Adrian Lyne (1993) US: When a couple are offered $1 million if the wife will sleep with a wealthy man their lives fall apart…(and they turn to teaching). 
Indecent Seduction. Dir. Alan Metzger (1996) US: The college football coach abuses his power and has an improper relationship with a fourteen year old girl.
Iris. Dir. Richard Eyre (2001) UK/US: Academic in decline. Touching story of novelist Iris Murdoch’s battle with Alzheimer’s. 
Institute Benjamenta, or this Dream People Call Life. Dir. Timothy and Stephen Quay (1995) UK: Set in a training institute where a trainee butler learns about service, and life.
It’s Great to be Young. Dir. Cyril Frankel (1956) UK: When a new headmaster sacks a favourite teacher the students stage a mild rebellion. Musical comedy.

Jack. Dir. Francis Ford Coppola (1996) US: A ten year old boy with a rare disease looks like a forty year old. Comedy drama. 
Jacknife.  Dir.   David Jones (1988) US: The school mistress sister of a Vietnam veteran objects when he is reunited with a war colleague. 
Jude. Dir. Michael Winterbottom (1996) UK: A working-class scholar battles to become a teacher (adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Jude The Obscure). 
Just Another Girl on the IRT. Dir. Leslie Harris (1992): A bright girl becomes pregnant to an ‘undesirable’ and alienation follows.

Kes.  Dir. Ken Loach (1970) UK: A working class boy in northern England, effectively rejected by formal education, learns through his love of a captive bird or prey.  
Killing Mr Griffin Dir. Jack Bender (1997) US: The kidnap of a high school teacher goes horribly wrong. 
Kindergarten Cop. Dir. Ivan Reitman (1990) US: An undercover police officer takes on the role of teacher.
The King and I. Dir. Walter Lang (1956) US: A widowed schoolteacher falls in love with the King of Thailand.

Lambada. Dir. Joel Silberg (1990) US: Maths teacher by day, dance teacher to the underprivileged by night.  
L’enfant Sauvage. Dir. Francois Truffaut (1970). France. A child discovered living wild in the forest is placed under the supervision of a doctor who attempts to educate him. 
L’Esquive. Dir. Abdellatif Kechiche (2003) France: A 15 year old Parisian Arab boy falls for an aspiring actress schoolmate. 
Lean On Me. Dir. John G. Avildsen (1989) US: A strong principal and his approach to school leadership. 
Leaving Lenin. Dir. Endaf Emlyn (1993) UK: A school trip and self-discovery in post-communist St. Petersberg. Welsh with English subtitles. 
Legally Blonde. Dir. Robert Luketic (2001) US: Comedy as a sorority girl pursues her ‘thinks he’s too good’ boyfriend to Harvard. 
Les Diaboliques. Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzo. (1954) France: A brutal head teacher’s wife and mistress plot his demise in a down at heel school.
Les Quatre Cents Coups. Dir. François Truffaut (1960) France. A young French boy begins a life of petty crime after experiencing neglect from his parents and scolding teachers. 
Life Begins in College. Dir. William A Selter (1937) US: Comedy about the college football team.
Listen To Me. Dir. Douglas Day Stewart (1989) US: The trials and tribulations of students around a debating competition.
Little Man Tate. Dir. Jodie Foster (1992) US: A mother and psychologist struggle over a brilliant boy’s education.
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Dir. Tony Richardson (1962) UK: A borstal boy fights back at the system. English social class under the microscope.  
The Long Day Closes. Dir. Terence Davies (1992) UK: A Liverpool childhood. 
Looking For Mr. Goodbar. Dir. Richard Brooks (1977) US: A female schoolteacher explores the brutal New York singles scene.
Lord Love a Duck. Dir.  George Axellrod (1966) US: Black comedy in a bizarre high school.
Lord Of The Flies. Dir. Peter Brook (1963) UK: A plane carrying a group of schoolboys crashes on a remote island and the surviving schoolboys descend into violence and superstition. Based on the William Golding novel. 
The Lords of Discipline. Dir.  Frand Roddam (1983) US: Racism in a military academy in 1960s Carolina.
Loser. Dir. Amy Heckerling (2000) US: Date rape and underage sex in a big city college.
Love and Other Catastrophes. Dir. Emma Kate Crogan (1996) Australia: 24 hours in the lives of five college students. .
The Loudest Whisper. [US title The Childrens’ Hour.] Dir. William Wyler (1961) US: A schoolgirl spreads rumours that her teachers are lesbians.
Lucky Jim. Dir. John Boulting (1957) UK: A University teacher learns the ropes. Based on the Kingsley Amis novel of the same title.

Madam Soustaka. Dir.  John Sleisenger (1988) UK: A piano teacher and protégé. Regret for self and ambition for others.
Madeline Dir. Daisy von Scherler Mayer (1998) US/Germany: This children’s comedy is set in an orphanage – some education related content. 
The Man Without A Face. Dir. Mel Gibson (1993) US: The relationship between a disfigured teacher and fatherless boy.
Massacre at Central High. Dir. Renee Daalder (1975) US: A student systematically murders bullies. Horror.
Matilda. Dir. Danny DeVito. (1996) US: Comedy, based on Roald Dahl story. Various teachers feature, including a scary head teacher.
Maurice. Dir. James Ivory (1987) UK: Homosexuality at Cambridge. 
Mean Girls. Dir. Mark S. Waters (2004) US: High School comedy as a new girl gets in with the ‘in-crowd’ with a view to subverting the ‘top girl’.  
The Mighty. Dir. Peter Chelsom (1998) US: Two outsider boys create an imaginary world of their own.
The Miracle Worker. Dir. Arthur Penn (1962) US: Based on the story of Helen Keller who, born deaf and blind, is helped by a remarkable teacher.  
The Mirror Has Two Faces. Dir. Barbra Striesand (1996) US: Romantic comedy when a dowdy professor agrees to a platonic relationship. 
Mona Lisa Smile. Dir. Mike Newell (2003) US: An idealistic teacher at an American traditional girls college does battle against the establishment. 
Mr Holland’s Opus. Dir. Stephen Herek (1995) US: A musician is ‘reduced’ to teaching as a stop gap only to find a rewarding career, until cuts in educational budgets end his job.
Music of the Heart Dir. Wes Craven (1999) US: A violin teacher and a group of Harlem children.
My Tutor. Dir. George Bowers (1983) US: A young man’s father hires a blonde and beautiful female tutor to help him make it to university. Comedy.

National Lampoon’s Animal House. Dir. John Landis (1978) US: Campus based streetwise ‘smart comedy’. A debauched fraternity resists the dean’s attempt to remove them. Spawned many imitations and sequels (not listed). 
Never Been Kissed. Dir. Raja Gosnell (1999) US: An undercover journalist in a high school rediscovers the angst of school.
New Port South. Dir. Kyle Cooper (2001): A student led campaign of disruption against a restrictive school regime.
Not Another Teen Movie. Dir. Joel Gallen (2001) US: Comedy spoof of the high school comedy genre. 
Notes on a Scandal.  Dir. Richard Eyre (2006) UK: A female schoolteacher’s relationship with a male pupil, based on the Zoe Heller novel.
The Nutty Professor. Dir. Jerry Lewis (1963) US: Comedy as nerdy male chemistry professor falls for female student and transforms himself through science.   
The Nutty Professor. Dir. Tom Shadyac (1996) US: Reworking of 1963 classic of the same title.

O. Dir. Tim Blake Nelson (2001) US: Reworking of Othello transplanted to a modern high school in the American south. Racism and tragedy. 
October Sky Dir. Joe Johnston  (1999) US: A talented young science student and friends win a national science prize against a background of sports orientated peers. 
Oleana. Dir. David Mamet (1994) UK/US: A student accuses her male tutor of sexual harassment.  
Our Miss Brooks. Dir. Al Lewis (1956) US: An English teacher at a Madison high school and her professor husband to be.  
Oxford Blues. Dir. Robert Boris (1984) US: An American finances his Oxford education through gambling.

Padre Padrone. Dir. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (1977) Italy. The true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh, almost barbaric existence by slowly educating himself, despite violent opposition from his brutal father.
The Paper Chase. Dir. James Bridges (1973) US: A Harvard Law professor and his student cross intellectual swords. Comedy drama from the novel of the 
same title. 
Pay It Forward. Dir. Mini Leder (2000) US: A schoolboy’s random acts of kindness in response to a school project to make the world a better place. 
The Perfect Score. Dir. Brian Robbins (2004) US; High school students connive to steal test papers. 
Permanent Record. Dir. Marisa Silver (1988) US: Class mates and the aftermath of teen suicide. 
Personal Affair. Dir. Anthony Pelisser (1953) UK: A school master offers a girl extra tuition. When he rejects her advances she ‘disappears’ placing stress on his marriage and general recrimination (until her return three days later).  
Picnic At Hanging Rock. Dir. Peter Weir (1975) Australia: An Australian school picnic goes eerily wrong. Based on the novel by Joan Lindsay.
Please Sir. Dir. Mark Stuart (1971) UK: Growing from a television sitcom (1968-1972) as a class run rings round their hapless teacher. 
Please Teacher. Dir. Stafford Dickens (1937) UK: Comedy farce as a young man seeks hidden fortune in a girls’ school.
Police Academy. Dir. Hugh Wilson (1984) US: Police training for a group of misfits. This film spawned six sequels (not listed).
Porkys. Dir. Bob Clark (1981) US: Features a group students preoccupied by sex. Two sequels followed (not listed).
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Dir. Ronald Neame (1969) UK: An unorthodox teacher at an exclusive girls school inspires devotion and loses her job. Based on the Muriel Spark novel.
The Principal. Dir. Christopher Cain (1987) US: A ‘failing’ teacher becomes the principal of a violent school.
Privileged. Dir. Michael Hoffman  (1982) UK: Sexual entanglements amongst Oxford undergraduates lead to suicide.
Pump Up the Volume. Dir. Allan Moyle (1990) US: A school nerd transforms into a ‘shock jock’, becoming a hero to other students in this drama. 
The Pure Hell of St.Trinian’s. Dir. Frank Launder (1960) UK: With St. Trinian’s burned down a psychologist is called. Third film in the St. Trinian’s series.

Rachel, Rachel. Dir. Paul Newman (1968) US: A spinster schoolteacher tries to escape her job after a life spent serving others. 
The Rainbow. Dir. Ken Russell (1988) UK: A farmer’s daughter chooses education over love. 
Remember the Day. Dir. William Perlberg (1941) US: An ageing schoolteacher looks back on a life and influence. 
Remember the Titans. Dir. Boaz Yakin (2000) US: A black coach helps to heal community divisions in a Virginia school.
Renaissance Man. Dir. Penny Marshall (1994) US: A former advertising executive teaches English to army recruits. 
Revenge of the Nerds. Dir. Jeff Konew (1984) US: Nerds fight back against bullying jocks. 
River’s Edge. Dir. Tim Hunter (1986) US: Alienated high school youths in a moral void exposed by their reactions to a murder.
Road Trip. Dir. Tod Phillips (2000) US: A student races across country to save his relationship with his girlfriend. .   
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School. Dir.. Allan Arkush  Joe Dante: Students hire a punk band and start a school rebellion. 
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion. Dir. David Mirkin (1997) US: Two young women return to their High School reunion to ‘show off’ and to confront their pasts (including the bullies). An engaging comedy that makes some pertinent points about school peer group hierarchies.
Rue Cases Nègres . Dir. Euzhan Palcy (1983) France: Set in Martinique in the 1930s, the film tells the story of a young boy from a poor family who wins a scholarship to a school in the capital city and later goes on to become an author.  
Ruby Bridges. Dir. Euzhan Palcy (1999): A young girl is the first black student at a previously all white school in America in 1960.    
Rushmore. Dir. Wes Anderson (1998) US: An incompetent but hardworking nerd student, Max Fischer,  ‘runs the show’ before developing a crush on teacher Miss Cross.   
Ryan’s Daughter. Dir. David Lean (1970) UK: The wife of an Irish schoolteacher embarks on an affair with an English army officer during the 1916 conflict.  A classic film with in which the schoolteacher ‘pillar of the community’ role is significant but not central.

Save the Last Dance. Dir. Thomas Carter (2001) US: a relatively privileged you woman finds herself part of the minority in a mainly black school in a rundown part of Chicago.
The Scamp. Dir. Wolf Rilla (1957) UK: A delinquent child and kindly teacher.
Scary Movie. Dir. Keenan IvoryWayans(2000) US: Horror spoof comedy. The victims are high school kids. Scary Movie 2 and Scary Movie 3 were sequels.
School Daze. Dir. Spike Lee (1988) US: Comedy based on a black fraternity house in an American college.
School Spirit. Dir. Alan Holleb (1985) US: A high school boy killed in a car crash is allowed to return as a ghost for a last chance to get a girlfriend.  
School Ties. Dir. Robert Mandel (1992) US: Religious conflict, anti-Semitism and sport in an elite American school.
School of Rock. Dir. Richard Linklater (2004) US: An unemployed guitarist becomes a bogus teacher in a private school transforming some of his well to do students into a rock band. 
Scream. Dir. Wes Craven (1996): Slasher horror with dark humour as high school kids are murdered. (Two sequels, not listed).
The Seniors. Dir. Rod Amateau (1978) US: A fake sex clinic set up as a student prank becomes hugely successful.  
Separate but Equal. Dir.  George Stevens Jr. (1991) US: The battle against racial segregation in American schools.
Shadowlands. Dir. Richard Attenborough (1993) UK/US: Biography of author and Oxford don C S Lewis focusing on romance with American poet Joy Gresham.
The Shawshank Redemption. Dir. Frank Darabont (1994) US: Whilst primarily about how an intelligent and educated (and innocent) prisoner finally bucks the system, the film does contain interesting observations on prison education and cultural capital in penal institutions.
She Loves Me Not. Dir. Elliott Nugent (1934) US: A boys’ college becomes a hide-away for a showgirl on the run.
She’s All That. Dir. Robert Iscove (1999) US: A student takes on a bet that he can transform a girl from school nerd to prom queen. 
She’s Working Her Way Through College. Dir. H Bruce Humberstone (1952) US: A showgirl goes to college and takes the eye of a professor (acted by Ronald Reagan). 
Sing. Dir. Richard Baskin (1989) US: A singing contest in a Brooklyn high school as the education authority plan to close it down.   
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit. Dir. Bill Duke  (1993) US: A night club singer doubles as a nun and music teacher in a Catholic school in the wrong part of town.
Sixteen Candles.  Dir.  John Hughes (1984) US: A girl tries to attract the class heartthrob.  Nerds, jocks etc. abound. 
The Skulls. Dir. Gordon Douglas (2000) US: Dark doings and a college secret society.
Slackers. Dir. Dewey Nicks (2001) US: An obsessive discovers evidence that three have cheated their way through education. To keep him quiet they try to get him a beautiful girlfriend.  
Slap Her, She’s French. Dir. Melanie Mayron (2001) US: A cultural exchange visit provides the basis for this comedy.
Small Wonders. Dir. Allan Miller (1995) US: Documentary about an inspiring music teacher. 
Sorority Girl. Dir. Roger Corman (1957) US: ‘Bad girl’ becomes isolated from her peers.
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut. Dir. Tray Parker (1999) US: ‘Bad taste’  cult tv cartoon is transfers to the big screen.
South Riding. Dir. Victor Saville (1938) UK: A schoolmistress fights council corruption. Based on the Winifred Holtby novel of the same title. Social class attitudes are exposed.
Spare the Rod. Dir. Leslie Norman (1961) UK: Punishment verses benevolent child psychology in a tough school.
Stand and Deliver. Dir. Ramon Menendez (1988) US: An IBM scientist decides to teach maths. He becomes a dedicated and motivational teacher in a system that is racist and lacking in aspiration for students. When he transforms a gang of delinquents the authorities question the results.   
Stanley and Iris. Dir. Martin Ritt (1989) US: An uneducated man is taught to read and slowly transformed by a widow.
Student Seduction Dir. Peter Savtek (2003) US: A young woman chemistry teacher is accused of molesting a student.
The Student Teachers. Dir. Jonathan Kaplan (1973) US: Student teachers at High School are terrorised by a rapist. 
St Trinian’s Dirs. Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson (2007) UK: The St Trinian’s girls save the school from bankruptcy.   
The Substitute. Dir. Martin Donovan (1993) US: A school teacher finds out her husband is cheating on her.
The Substitute. Dir. Robert Mandel (1996) US: When a school teacher is attacked by a gang of drug involved students her ex-soldier boyfriend takes his revenge. The film led to two sequels (not listed).
Summer School. Dir. Carl Reiner (1987) US: A teacher on holiday in Hawaii is drawn into a summer school.
Surviving Desire. Dir. Hal Hartley (2002) US: Philosophical film explores the love between a male college professor and a female student.  
Sweetheart of the Campus. Dir. Edward Dymtryk (1941) US: A college band attempt to increase falling enrolments.  
Sylvia. Dir. Michael Firth (1984) New Zealand: Biographical film explores the work with Maori children of educationalist Sylvia Ashton-Warner. 

Taps. Dir. Harold Becker (1981) US: Cadets take over a military academy that is threatened with redevelopment. One reviewer has, improbably, compared this film to the British If. 
Tea and Sympathy. Dir. Vincente Minnelli (1956) US: Exploring the relationship between a male student who thinks he is gay and a teacher’s wife.
Teachers. Dir. Arthur Hiller (1984) US: When a school is sued because of low standards the staff rally round to defend it. 
Teacher’s Pet. Dir. George Seaton (1958) US: A teacher of journalism and an initially cynical mature student in romantic comedy.
Teacher’s Pet. Dir. Timothy Bjorklund (2004) US: Disney children’s comedy cartoon about a dog that, posing as a human, goes to school with his master. 
Teaching Mrs Tingle. Dir. Kevin Williamson (1999) US: Tensions between a teacher and students lead to ‘a hostage situation’ in this black comedy thriller.
10 Things I Hate About You. Dir. Gil Junger (1999) US: Based on Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew highlights gender politics in high school.  
Term of Trial. Dir. Peter Glanville (1962) UK: A schoolteacher who spurns the infatuation of a 15 year old girl he has provided free private tuition for faces accusations of sexual assault following a school trip. 
These Three. Dir. William Wyler (1936) US: A teacher is accused of sex with the fiancé of a colleague. Remade in a version truer to the original Lillian Hellman stage play, with its theme of lesbianism, as The Children’s’ Hour. [GB title The Loudest Whisper] Dir. William Wyler (1961) US
Three O’ Clock High. Dir. Phil Joanou (1987) US: High noon style face off in high school comedy.
Time and Winds. Dir. Reha Erdem (2008) Turkey. Childhood life in a rural village in Turkey, centred on the school and its young woman teacher. 
To Sir, With Love. Dir. James Clavell (1967) UK: A black teacher wins respect in a tough London school, and is the object of a schoolgirl crush. In 1996 there was an American sequel To Sir, With Love 2. 
Tom Brown’s Schooldays. Dir. Robert Stevenson (1940) US: American setting, loosely based on the classic novel of the same title. 
Tom Brown’s Schooldays. Dir. Gordon Perry (1951) UK: Life at Rugby public school, based on the classic novel of the same title.
Torment. Dir. Alf Sjöberg (1944) Sweden: a schoolboy has an affair with the mistress of his teacher. 
The Tree of Wooden Clogs. Dir. Ermanno Olmi (1978) Italy. Set on a farm in the Po valley at the beginning of the 20th century, the film tells the story of poor family’s struggle to provide their son with an education. 
The Trouble with Angels. Dir. Ida Lupino (1966) US: Two schoolgirls have behavioural problems in this convent drama.
True Blue. Dir. Ferdinand Fairfax (1996) UK: Drama based on Oxbridge boat race.
Two Loves. Dir. Charles Walters (1961) US: A female teacher in New Zealand is the subject of this drama. Loved by her students and an (unrequited) colleague.

Unman, Wittering and Zigo. Dir. John Mackenzie (1971): A public school master is put in fear of his life when he hears that pupils murdered the previous teacher.
Up the Academy Dir. Robert Downey (1980) US: Comedy at a military academy. 
Up the Down Staircase. Dir. Robert Mulligan (1967) US: A new teacher faces her first job and questions her ideals.

Vamp. Dir. Richard Venk (1986) US: Students, strippers and vampires.
Varsity Blues. Dir. Brian Robbins (1998) US: American high school football drama as the star of the team and his coach have a clash of wills.
Village of the Damned. Dir. Wolf Rilla (1960) UK: Tense sc-fi as a teacher tries to prevent alien take-over gaining a foothold in an English village. Based on John Wyndham’s novel The Midwich Cuckoos. There was a US remake, set in California, in 1995.

Waterland. Dir. Stephen Gallenhaal (1992) UK: Memory and history undermine a teacher’s life. Set in the Fens.
White Squall. Dir. Ridley Scott (1996)US: Teenage boys learn to co-operate on a schooner in the Caribbean.  
Who Shot Patakango? Dir. Robert Brooks (1989) US: Final year students in a Brooklyn high school. Documentary style drama.  
Why Shoot the Teacher? Dir. Silvio Narrizano (1876) Canada: A new teacher is unpopular owing to his relative youth and lack of local credentials. 
The Wildcats of St.Trinian’s. Dir. Frank Launder (1980) UK: Strikes and ‘leggy’ sixth formers in another St.Trinian’s offering.   
Wild Things. Dir. John McNaughton (1998) US: A Florida high school teacher is accused of rape. (S)exploitation drama. 
Wilt. Dir. Michael Tuchner (1989) UK: Comedy about a teacher of liberal studies in FE who becomes a murder suspect when his wife goes missing. 
Wit Dir. Mike Nicols (2001) US: A literature professor fights ovarian cancer.
Wonder Boys. Dir. Curtis Hanson (2000) US: Comedy drama based on the complex life of a college professor/author.

Zero De Conduite. Dir. Jean Vigo (1933) France: A group of boarding school boys rebel against their teachers. Subtitled.

Popular music

Popular music is notoriously impervious to interpretation. Lyrics are different to poetry and music can transform their meanings. The supposed (by some) triviality and disposability of pop are further complications. Notwithstanding these factors, below are some songs that have varying degrees of relevance to education and educational issues.  Please note that in many cases the information supplied is not (yet) complete. We would appreciate suggestions for inclusion, further information (where missing) and corrections from anybody who can be of assistance.

Concept Albums

Songs

Concept Albums

Jim Bob (2006) School

According to artist’s web site, ‘…a story of asbomania, fag smoking PE teachers, insane and bitter geography teachers, foul-mouthed food technology teachers and the mufty day riots.’

Gym Class Heroes (2007) As Cruel As School Children

American High School provides  the context for the following tracks:

Darren Hayman (2007) Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern

School themed album featuring the following tracks:

Lauryn Hill (1994) The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Hip hop/soul inflected love songs interspersed with classroom conversations.

The Kinks (1975) Schoolboys in Disgrace

School authority narrative featuring the following tracks:

Songs

2 Live Crew (1989) My Seven Bizzos
38 Specials (1984) Teacher, Teacher

Abba (1976)  When I Kissed The Teacher
The Adorables (1964) School’s all Over. World 10.
Aerosmith (1975) Walk This Way.
Afroman (2001) Palmdale.
Alice Cooper (1971) Eighteen. Warner Brothers 7449.
Alice Cooper (1972) School’s Out. Warner Brothers 7596.
Alice Cooper (1973) Teenage Lament ’74. Warner Brothers 7762. 
Alice Cooper (1975) Department of Youth. Atlantic 3280.
Ed Ames (1968) Who Will Answer? RCA 9400.
The Arbors (1967) Graduation Day. Date 1561.
Arctic Monkeys (2005) Bigger Boys and Stolen Sweethearts.
Frankie Avalon (1978) Beauty School Dropout.
Avant (2002)  Love School. 
Average White Band (1975) School Boy Crush. Atlantic 3304.

Barenaked Ladies (1992) Grade 9. 
The Beach Boys (1963)  Be True To Your School. Capitol 5069
The Beach Boys (1963) Surfin USA.
The Beach Boys (1964) I Get Around. Capitol 5174.
The Beatles (1967) Getting Better.
The Beastie Boys (1986) Fight For Your Right.
Boyd Bennett and His Rockets (1955) My Boy – Flat Top. King 1494.
Boyd Bennett and His Rockets (1955) Seventeen. King 1470.
Chuck Berry (1959) Almost Grown. Chess 1722.
Chuck Berry (1957) School Day. Chess 1653.
Chuck Berry (1958) Sweet Little Sixteen. Chess 1683.
Chuck Berry (1964) You Never Can Tell. Chess 1906.
Chuck Berry (1965) Lonely School Days. Chess 1926
Cilla Black (1968) Follow Me.
Black Box Recorder (2002) May Queen.
Black Box recorder (2003) The School Song.
Black Sabbath (1996) Over To You.
The Bobbettes (1957) Mr Lee. Atlantic 1144.
The Boom Town Rats (1977) Mary of the Fourth Form
The Boom Town Rats (1979)  I Don’t Like Mondays.
Barry Blue (1974) School Love.
Gary US Bonds (1961) School Is Out. Legend 1009
Gary US Bonds (1961) School Is In. Legend 1012
The Bonzo Dog Doodah Band (1969) Sport (The Odd Boy).
The Boys (1978) Teacher’s Pet. 
Billy Bragg (1984) The Saturday Boy.
Billy Bragg (1999) Scholarship is the Enemy of Romance.
James Brown (1966) Don’t Be a Drop Out. King 6056.
James Brown (2002) Killing Is Out, School Is In 
Roy Brown (1959) School Bell Rock. King 5247.
Brownsville Station (1973) Smokin’ in the Boys’ Room. Big Tree 16011. 
Busted (2002) What I Go To School For.
Busted (2002) Loser Kid. 
The Byrds (1967) My Back Pages. Columbia 44054.
The Byrds (1967) So You Want To Be a Rock  ‘N’ Roll Star. Columbia 43987.

C Murder (1999)  I Remember.
Freddy Cannon (1964) Abigail Beecher. Warner Brothers 5409
Henson Cargill (1968) Skip A Rope. Monument 1041.
Valarie Carr (1958) When The Boys Talk About The Girls. Roulette 4066.  
Andrea Carroll (1963) It Hurts To Be Sixteen. Big Top 3156. 
Clarence Carter (1970) Patches. Atlantic 2748.
Harry Chapin (1978) Flowers Are Red.
Harry Chapin (1974) Cat’s In The Cradle. Elektra 45203.
Harry Chapin (1972) Taxi. Elektra 45770.
Gene Chandler and Barbara Acklin (1968) From A Teacher to A Preacher. Brunswick 55387.
Ray Charles (1960) Sticks and Stones. ABC-Paramount 10118. 
Tommy Charles (1956) After School. Decca 29946. 
Cheap Trick (1977)  Daddy Should Have Stayed in High School.
Chicago (1972) Dialogue (Parts 1 and 11). Columbia 45717.
Chubby Checker (1959) The Class. Parkway 804
Chubby Checker (1959) Schooldays, Oh Schooldays. Parkway 804
Johnny Christopher (1969) The Teacher and the Pet. AGP 110.
Eric Clapton (1980) Tulsa Time.
Jimmy Clanton (1962) Venus in Blue Jeans. Ace 8001.
Dee Clark (1959) Hey Little Girl. Abner 1029.
Dee Clark (1962) I’m Going Back To School. Vee Jay 462.
Roy Clark (1969) Yesterday When I Was Young. Dot 17246.
Larry Clinton (1938)  You’re An Education.
The Coasters (1958) Yakety Yak. Atco 6116.
The Coasters (1959) Charlie Brown. Atco 6132 [Lieber and Stoller]
The Coasters (1960) Wake Me, Shake Me. Atco 6168.
Eddie Cochran (1958) Summertime Blues. Liberty 55144. 
Leonard Cohen (2004) To A Teacher. 
Ben Colder (1968) Harper Valley PTA (Later That Same Day). MGM 13997. 
Sam Cooke (1960) (What A) Wonderful World. Keen 2112.
Sam Cooke (1959) Only Sixteen. Keen 2022.
L. L. Cool J Featuring LaShawn (2000) Imagine That.
Crash Test Dummies (1994) Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969) Fortunate Son. Fantasy 634.
Jim Croce (1973) I’ve Got a Name. ABC 11389.
Jim Croce (1974) Workin’ At The Carwash Blues. ABC 11447.
Bing Crosby and Connee Boswell (1939) An Apple For The Teacher. 
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (1970) Ohio. Atlantic 2740.
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (1970) Teach Your Children. Atlantic 2735.
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (1970) Woodstock. Atlantic 2723.
Pablo Cruise (1977) A Place In The Sun. A and M 1976.
The Crystals (1952) He’s a Rebel. Philles 106.

Danny and The Juniors (1958) School Boy Romance. ABC-Paramount 9888.
Craig David (2005) Johnny.
Mac Davies (1975) Rock and Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life). Columbia 10070. 
Sammy Davies Jnr (1968) I’ve Gotta Be Me. Reprise 0779. 
Doris Day (1956) Whatever Will Be Will Be Que Sera Sera.
Doris Day (1958) Teacher’s Pet. Columbia 41123. 
Dead Prez (2000) They Schools.
Deftones (2000) Back To School.
Neil Diamond (1971) I Am, I Said. Uni 55278.
Neil Diamond (1968)  Brooklyn Roads.
Bo Diddley (1967) Back To School. Checker 1156
Mark Dinning (1957) School Fool. Mam 93000.
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince (1987) Just One of Those days
Fats Domino (1958) Young School Girl. Imperial 1958
The Donnas (1998) I Don’T Want To Go To School.
The Donnas (1998) I Wanna Be A Unabomber
Dr Hook (1975) Only Sixteen. Capitol 4171.
Dr Hook (1972) Sylvia’s Mother. Columbia 45562. 
Dob Dylan (1964) My Back Pages. 
Bob Dylan (1965) Subterranean Homesick Blues. Columbia 43242.

The Eagles (1977) New Kid in Town. Asylum 45373.
Tom Edwards (1957) What Is A Teenage Boy? Coral 61773.
Tom Edwards (1957) What Is A Teenage Girl? Coral 61773.
Eightball and MJG (1994) Break A Bitch College.
Enenem (1999)  Brain Damage. 
The Everly Brothers (1958) Problems.
The Everly Brothers (1957) Wake Up Little Suzie. Cadence 1337.
The Everly Brothers (1958) Bird Dog. Cadence 1350.
Extreme (1989) Teacher’s Pet.
Extreme (1989) Mutha (Don’t Wanna Go To School Today).

Tommy Facenda (1959) High School USA. Atlantic 51-78. 
The Fleetwoods (1959) Graduation’s Here. Dolton 3. 
The Four Freshman (1956) Graduation Day. Capitol 3410.
Britney Fox (1988) Girls School.
Connie Francis (1961) Where The Boys Are. MGM 12971.
Connie Francis (1962) Vacation.
Connie Francis (1958) Stupid Cupid. 
Funn (1981) School Daze. Magic 93000.
David Geddes (1975) The Last Game of the Season (A Blind Man in the Bleachers). Big Tree 16052.
Ghetto Fabolous (2001) Get Smart. 

Andrew Gold (1977) Lonely Boy.
Gong (1970) 5 and 20 Schoolgirls
The Graduates (1959) What Good is Graduation? Corsican 0058. 
Dobie Gray (1965) The ‘In’ Crowd. Charger 105.

Merle Haggard and the Strangers (1969) Okie From Muskogee. Capitol 2626.  
Bill Haley (1954) ABC Bogey. Decca
Hall and Oates (1984)  Adult Education.
George Hamilton IV (1957) High School Romance. ABC-Paramount 9838.
George Hamilton IV (1956) A Rose and a Baby Ruth. ABC-Paramount 9765
George Hamilton IV (1958) Why Don’t They Understand? ABC-Paramount 9862.
Albert Hammond (1973) The Free Electric Band. Mums 6018.
Hanoi Rocks (1984) High School.
The Happenings (1966) See You in September. B. T. Puppy 520. 
Dale Hawkins (1959) Class Clutter (Yeah Yeah). Checker 916.
Herman’s Hermits (1965) (What A) Wonderful World. MGM 13354.
Dwayne Hickman (1958) School Dance. ABC-Pararmount 9908.
Jake Hohnes 91970) High School Hero. Tower St 5127.
The Hollies (1967) Carrie Anne.
The Hollies (1968) Jennifer Eccles.
The Hudson Brothers (1975) Lonely School Year. Rocket 40464.
Ian Hunter (1984) (I’m The) Teacher.

Janis Ian (1975) At Seventeen. Columbia 10154
Janis Ian (1967) Society’s Child (Baby I’ve Been Thinking).Verve 5027. 
Insane Clown Posse (1998)  Willy Bubba.
Insane Clown Posse (1998) Mr Johnson’s Head.
Insane Clown Posse (1992) Never Had It Made.
Bill Irwin and the Four Jacks (1962) High School Days. Fairlane 21020.
Big Dee Irwin (1963) Swingin’ On a Star. Dimension 1010.
The Isley Brothers (1969) It’s Your Thing. T-Neck 901.

Jackie and Gayle (1964) Why Can’t My Teacher look Like Mr Novak? Capitol 5325. The Jackson Five (1970)  ABC.
The Jam (1980) Denis Watts.
Sonny James (1957) Talk of the School. Capitol 4178. 
Tommy James and the Shondells (1967) I Think We’re Alone Now. Roulette 4720. 
The Jamies (1958) Summertime, Summertime. Epic 9281.
Jamiroquai (1999) Soul Education. 
Jan and Dean (1964) New Girl In School. Liberty 55672.
Carol Jarvis (1957) Rebel. Dot 15586. 
Kris Jensen (1960) School Bus. Leader 808. 
Jethro Tull (1970) The Teacher. Reprise 0899.
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts (1977) School Days.
Billy Joel  (1977) Just The Way You Are. Columbia 10646.
Billy Joel (1978) Only The Good Die Young. Columbia 10750.  
Billy Joel (1980) You May Be Right. Columbia 11231.
Elton John (1973) Teacher I Need You. 
Elton John (1975) Someone Saved My Life Tonight. MCA 40421. 
Elton John (1976) Benny and the Jets. MCA 40198
Gary Jules (2003) Mad World.

Kaiser Chiefs (2008) Never Miss a Beat
Jerry Keller (1959) Here Comes Summer.
Adrian Kimberly (1961) Pomp and Circumstance (The Graduation Song). Calliope 6501.
Carol King (1962) School Bells are Ringing. Dimension 1004.
Carol King (1962) It Might As Well Rain Until September.
The Knack (1979) Good Girls Don’t.

Leaders of the New School (1991) Case of the PTA.
Tom Lehrer (1959) Bright College Days.
John Lennon (1970) Working class Hero.
Jerry Lee Lewis (1959)  High School Confidential. Sun 296.
Smiley Lewis (1957) School Days Are Back Again. Imperial 5478.
Dave Loggins (1974) Please Come To Boston. Epic 11115.
Loggins and Messina (1973) Your Mama Can’t Dance. Columbia 45719.  
Lulu (1967) To Sir, With Love. Epic 10187.
Baz Luhrmann (1999) Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen).
Victor Lundberg (1967) Open Letter To My Teenage Son. Liberty 553996.

Mac (1998) My Brother.
Paul McCartney (1977) Girls’ School.
Barry McGuire (1965) Eve of Destruction. Dunhill 4009.
Madness (1980) Baggy Trousers.
George Maharis (1962) Teach Me Tonight. Epic 9504.
Dave Mason (1977) We Just Disagree. Columbia 10575. 
Johhny Mathis (1958) Teacher, Teacher. Columbia 41152.
MC5 (1993) High School.
MC Ren (1992) Behind The Scenes.
Mia X   (1993) Sex Education.   
The Milli Brothers (1957) Queen of the Senior Prom. Decca 30299.
Chad Mitchell Trio (1964) What Did You Learn in School Today? Mercury 72257.
The Moody Blues (1970) Question. Threshold 67004. 
Morrissey (1995) The Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils.
Motley Crue (1985) Smokin’ in the Boys’ Room. 
Mott the Hoople (I’m The) Teacher 
The Move (1968) Fire Brigade.
Ms Dynamite (2002) Dy-na-mi-tee

Ricky Nelson (1958) Waitin’  In School. Imperial 5483. 
Rick Nelson (1958) Stood Up. Imperial 5483.
Willie Nelson (1978) Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys. RCA 11198.
New Edition (1990) School.
Randy Newman (1983) My Life is Good.
Nicky and The Nobels (1959) School Day Crush. Gone 5039.
Nicky and The Nobels (1959) Schoolbells. Gone 5039.
Harry Nilsson (1969) Everybody’s Talking. RCA 0161.
Nirvana (1989) School.
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (1980) High School Yearbook. Liberty 1389.
Nizlopi (2005) The JCB Song.

Oasis (1995) Round Are Way
The Offspring (1997) Cool To Hate
The Olympics (1959) (I Wanna) Dance With The Teacher. Demon 1512.

Johnny Paycheck (1977) Take This Job and Shove It. Epic 50469.   
Tom Paxton (1964) What Did You Learn in School Today? 
Pearl Jam (1991) Jeremy.
Pet Shop Boys (1987) It’s A Sin.
Pet Shop Boys (2001) This Must Be the Place I waited Years To Leave
Bobby Pickett (1963) Graduation Day. Garpax 44175.
The Pharcyde (1992) Passin Me By.
Pink Floyd (1979) The Happiest Days of Our Lives.
Pink Floyd (1979) Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2. Columbia 11187.
Pitchshifter (1998) Please Sir
Gene Pitney (1962) Town Without Pity. Musicor. 1009.  
The Police (1980) Don’t Stand So Close To Me. A and M 2301.
Prince (1987)  Starfish and Coffee.
Proper Dos (1992) First Day Of School.

The Ramones (1979) Rock n’ Roll High School 
Lou Rawls (1967) Dead End Street. Capitol 5869
Chris Rea (1985) Stainsby Girls
Red Hot Chili Peppers (1985)  Catholic School Girls Rule
Helen Reddy (1974) You and Me Against the World. Capitol 3897.
REM (1998)  Sad Professor.
Reparata and the Delrons (1965) Whenever a Tennager Cries. World Artists 1036.
The Replacements (1982)  Fuck School.
Cliff Richards (1958) Schoolboy Crush.
Cliff Richards (1960) D in Love.
Jeanne C. Riley (1968) Harper Valley PTA. Plantation 3.
Marty Robbins (1958) She Was Only Seventeen. Columbia 41208.
Mary Robbins (1957) White Sport Coat (and a Pink Carnation). Columbia 40864.
Tom Robinson Band (1978) Martin.
Kenny Rogers and The First Edition (1972) School Teacher. Reprise 1069.
Timmy Rogers (1957) Back To School Again. Cameo 116
The Rolling Stones (1972) Sweet Black Angel.
The Rolling Stones (1980) Summer Romance.
Rover Boys. (1956) From a School Ring to a Wedding Ring. ABC- Parramount 9732.
Rover Boys. (1956) Graduation Day Ring. ABC- Parramount 9700.
Roxy Music (1973) Street Liife. 
Rubinoos (1998) Revenge of the Nerds.
Bobby Rydell (1960) Swingin’ School. Cameo 175.

Daz Sampson (2006) Teenage Life.
Adam Sandler (1993) Beating Of A High School Janitor.
Sammie (2000) When I Grow Up.
Saxon (1980) Sixth Form Girls. 
Seals and Crofts (1973) We May Never Pass This Way (Again). Warner Brothers 7740.  
Jon Sebastian (1976) Welcome Back. Reprise 1349.
Bob Seger System (1968) 2 = 2 + ? Capitol 2143.
Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band (1977) Night Moves. Capitol 4369.
Shadow Man (unknown) Day At School.
The Shangri-Las (1964) Leader of the Pack. Red Bird 014.
The Silhouettes (1958) Get A Job. Ember 1029 (?).
Carly Simon (1971) That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be. Electra 45724.
Carly Simon (1972) The Carter Family. 
Carly Simon (1973) The Right Thing To Do. Electra 45843.
Paul Simon (1972) Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard. Columbia 45585.
Paul Simon (1973) Kodachrome. Columbia 45859.
Paul Simon (1976) Still Crazy after All These Years. Columbia 0332. 
Simon and Garfunkel (1966) I Am A Rock. Columbia 43617.
Simon and Garfunkel (1975) My Little Town. Columbia 10230.  
Nina Simone (1969) To Be Young, Gifted and Black. RCA 0269.   
Frank Sinatra (1945) The Old School Teacher. 
Frank Sinatra (1966) That’s Life. Reprise 0531.
Frank Sinatra (1969) My Way. Reprise 0817.
Frank Sinatra (1966) That’s Life. Reprise 0531. 
The Small Faces (1967) Itchycoo Park.
O. C. Smith (1968) Son of Hickory Holler’s Tramp. Columbia 44425.  
The Smiths (1985) The Headmaster Ritual.
Dusty Springfield (1969) Son-of-a-Preacher Man. Atlantic 2580. 
Joanie Sommers (1962) When The Boys Get Together. Warner Brothers 5308.
Souls of Mischief (1993) Tell Me Who Profits.
Red Sovine (1966) Class of ’49. Starday 779
Bruce Springsteen (1984) Bobby Jean.
Bruce Springsteen (1984) No Surrender.
Randy Staff (1957) After School. Dale 100.
Jim Stafford (1974) Spiders and Snakes. MGM 14648.
Jo Stafford (1953) Teach Me Tonight.
The Staple Singers (1971) Respect Yourself. Stax 0104.
Statler Brothers(1972) Class of ’57 Mercury 73315 
Steely Dan (1973) My Old School. ABC 11396.
April Stevens (1959) Teach Me Tiger. Imperial 5626. 
Cat Stevens (1977) (Remember The Days of the) Old Schoolyard. A and M 1948.
Ray Stevens (1968) Mr Businessman. Monument 1083. 
Rod Stewart (1971) Maggie May.
The Stranglers (1977) School Mam.
Donna Summer (1977) Love’s Unkind.
Super Furry Animals (1997) Hermann Loves Pauline.
Supertramp (1974) School.
Supertramp (1979) The Logical Song. A and M 2128. 
The Sylvers (1977) High School Dance. Capitol 4405. 

Tandy and the Rainbows (1963) Why Do Kids Grow Up? Rust 5073.
Tommy Tate (1972) School of Love. Koko 2112.
Tears For Fears (1982) Mad World. 
The Tempos (1959) See You in September. Climax 102.
Richard Thompson (2005) When We Were Boys at School.
The Three Dog Night (1970) Mama Told Me (Not To Come). Dunhill 4239.
Tom and Jerry [later to be Simon and Garfunkel) (1956) Hey, Schoolgirl. Big 613.
Trends (1967) Don’t Drop Out of School. ABC 10944.
Twisted Sister (1985) Be Chrool To Your Scuel.

The Undertones (1980) My Perfect Cousin.

Frankie Valli (1974) My Eyes Adored You.
Van Halen (1984) Hot For Teacher.
Phil Vassar (2000) Carlene.
Bobby Vee (1961) Stayin In.
Venom (1982) Teacher’s Pet
Bobby Vinton (1962) Roses Are Red (My Love). Epic 9509.
Vitamin C (1999) Graduation. 

Loudon Wainwright III (1987) Schooldays. 
Rufus Wainwright (2004) The Art Teacher. 
Tom Waits (1999) Georgia Lee.
The Who (1966) My Generation. Decca 31877.
The Who (1970) Summertime Blues. Decca 32708.
The Who (1971) Won’t Get Fooled Again. Decca 32846. 
The Who (1979) Who Are You? MCA 40948.
Kim Wilde (1986) Schoolgirl. 
Larry Williams (1957) High School Dance. Speciality 608.
Larry Williams (1957) Short Fat Fanny. Speciality 608.
Robbie Williams  (1997) ‘Hidden Track’ Poem at End of Life Thru A Lens album
The Winstons (1969) Color Him Father. Metromedia 117 
Stevie Wonder (1976) I Wish. Tamla 54274. 
Weird Al Yankovic (1979) School Cafeteria.

The Yardbirds (1964) Good Morning Little Schoolgirl. 
Young MC (1989) Principal’s Office 
Neil Young (1970) Ohio.

Television

The output of television is now 24 hour, global and consequently immense. In the United Kingdom and the United States, there is a particular interest in dramas and documentaries that focus on crime and the police services, and on various aspects of medical practice and the work of hospitals.  Whilst education based features are less popular than the police/medical productions, they are nonetheless a staple of television. Teachers and learners often appear as characters in soap operas.

UK viewers will be familiar with Ken Barlow’s teaching years in the long running Coronation Street and the ascent to teaching of former ‘smackhead’ Jimmy Corkhill in Channel 4’s Brookside. In addition to this, there have been a number of ‘one-off’ reality based TV dramas of note, recent examples being Ahead of the Class (first broadcast by ITV in February 2005) and The Thieving Headmistress (BBC2  June 2006) and fictional dramas, for example, A Class Apart (BBC 1 March 2007).  In August 2006, Channel 4 screened the moving television documentary Secret Life of the Classroom showing the travails of children new to school. The same channel has hosted a successful ‘reality TV’ series That’ll Teach ‘Em, (first shown in 2003), which exposes groups of modern teenagers to the discipline and rigours of the educational experience in the manner of a 1950s grammar school and How the Other Half Learns (April 2007) which featured an exchange between state school and private school pupils.

The programmes listed below are UK productions based in (or focusing on) educational institutions.         

A Very Peculiar Practice (BBC 1986-1988, 1992)
Set in the campus medical practice at Lowlands University. Comedy drama. 

Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School (BBC 1953-1961)
Children’s comedy transformed for television from The Magnet comic. Billy Bunter is an overweight, greedy and cowardly boy at Greyfriars School. 

Grange Hill (BBC 1978-current)
Long running school based drama, aimed at children/teens.

Greek (BBC 3 2007–current)

Teen drama as a group of students are followed through the ‘Greek system’ of social organisation at the fictional Cyprus-Rhodes University (supposedly in Ohio).).

The Grimleys (ITV 1999-2001)
Teachers in a 1970s midland school. English teacher ‘Miss Titley’ sends hearts aflutter. Comedy. 

Headland (Australian TV from 2005-2006, shown on Channel 4 in the UK from 2006-2007)
Australian soap based on the lives of students at ‘South Coast University’.

Hearts and Minds (Channel 4 1995 – 4 isxty five minute episodes)
A Liverpool comprehensive school was the backdrop to this fictional drama series following the lives of teachers.

Hope and  Glory (BBC 1999-2000 )
A black headteacher managing a rundown comprehensive school against the odds. Drama.

The Law of the Playground (Channel 4 2006-current)
Non-fiction light entertainment as celebrities ‘wax comical’ on the lore of their schooldays.   

Mind Your Language (ITV 1977-1979)
An English class populated by national stereotypes provides the pretext for politically incorrect stereotype based ‘comedy mirth’. 

Please Sir  (ITV 1968-72)
An idealistic teacher works at Fenn Street Secondary Modern – a tough London school. Comedy.

Sea of Souls(BBC 2003-current)
Weird goings on in the Department of Para-psychology at Clyde University.

Summer Heights High (BBC 3 2008– current) 
An Australian mock documentary series set in a fictional Australian high school – offers a satirical take on school and society.

Teachers (Channel 4 2001-2005)
Focuses on life for a group of teachers at Summerdown Comprehensive School. Comedy drama.

Waterloo Road (BBC 1 2006-current)
Drama series based in a tough comprehensive school and the struggle to improve standards.

Whacko! (BBC 1956-1960, 1971-72)
Drunken headmaster ‘Professor’ Jimmy Edwards wields the cane at Chiselbury Public school.