That's Funny You Don't Look Like A Teacher!

What do you see when you think of teacher? Where does what you see come from? This is a book about the images of teachers and teaching which permeate the everyday lives of children and adults shaping in important but unrecognised ways their notions of whom teachers are and what they do. The authors show how using a creative interdisciplinary approach it is possible to analyse drawings of teachers television programmes films cartooons comics and even Barbie dolls. Illustrated with colour reproductions and excerpts from interviews and journals this book should appeal to teachers academics and anyone who is interested in the popular culture of childhood gender issues professional identity and teacher education.