Schooling the State: Teachers and Democratic Dispositions on The West Wing

Stephanie Schroeder

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Pages:: 13–21

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004398092_002

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Abstract

The West Wing highlights the democratic dispositions of teachers and extends the larger historical narratives surrounding both the moral superiority of teachers and, as moral agents, teachers’ central role in the cultivation of a democratic citizenry. Beyond the extension of these historical narratives, the depictions of White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry’s daughter, Mallory, a fourth grade teacher, or Mr. Willis, an eighth grade social studies teacher from Ohio filling his deceased wife’s congressional seat, offer a counter narrative desperately needed both at the time the show aired and in the present day, as teachers are demonized as the problem, not the solution, to a national educational crisis. The West Wing, then, both builds on and challenges dominant depictions of teachers, all the while reminding us of the crucial role of teachers in a democratic society.

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Teachers, Teaching, and Media

Original Essays about Educators in Popular Culture

Series: Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, Volume: 132

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004398092

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 27 May 2019

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Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

1 A Loyalty Test for the American Educator

2 Schooling the State

3 Rethinking Student-Teacher Relationship Intimacy as Attachment

4 Mr. Miller Goes to War

5 In Loco Parentis Redux

6 What’s a Nice White Lady to Do?

7 The Dis-Education of Rock ‘n’ Roll

8 Promoted to Control?

9 The Insecure Teacher

10 Contrasting the Archetypal Sage with the Mentor Coach in Young Adult Literature

11 Saved by the Belles

12 “Good” Teacher on Her Own Terms

13 Liberatory Pedagogy in Action

14 Q the Teacher—TV Lessons from the 24th Century

15 Speechless to Speechless

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