To Sir with Love: discourses, positions and relationships :: To Sir, with Love Essays

Research PaperIdentify and discuss professional issues in reading evident in a film or a tour of young peoples literature in which a teacher plays a fairly cental role.This essay will critically collapse the discourses, positions and relationships, as well as certain individuals habitus (after Bourdieu and Wacquant, 1992, cited in Gale & Densmore, 2000), which mold the classroom of Mark Thackeray (Sidney Potier) in the film To Sir with tell apart (Clavell, 1966). Via this analysis, I fight that the film portrays a simplistic, commercial palatable rather than a graphic image of the challenges of principle, leading the viewer to a distorted perception of the implications of the non-homogeneous discourses employed.In order to clarify this point, I comp be several(prenominal) incidents picture in the film, with the same incidents as they are described in the autobiographical book by E.R. Braithwaite(Braithwaite, 1959), upon which the film is based. In doing so, I will evaluat e the pedagogy of the films teacher (Thackeray) against the standards set for graduates and teachers respectively by the Queensland Board of instructor Registration (hereafter BTR) and Education Queensland (hereafter EQ). Identifying the faulty conclusions which an uncritical viewing of the film whitethorn lead to, with regard to the availability of equal opportunity and social justice, I will make specific recommendations for reconstructed teaching practice, drawing on literature on social justice and democratic schooling. The film To Sir, with jockey (hereafter the film), centres around three interlinked individualist assumptions that social and economic onward motion is sure if one tries hard enough (meritocracy), that race and class are no barrier to social and economic advancement (equal playing-field), and that indwelling talent rather than learnt skill, plays the most crucial role in a persons success (giftedness). These will be referred to in issue below.In contrast to this individualist stance, E.R.Braithwaite describes early in his book To Sir, With Love (hereafter the book) how his race had mitigated against his acquiring an engineering position for several years, despite excellent qualifications. He reacts to these difficulties by presenting his students with many examples of the interdependency of man the brotherhood of Man. In the film, Mark Thackeray too, continues to apply for engineering positions while teaching at North Quay Secondary.. Only at the end of the film is he finally offered the lowly post of Third Assistant Engineer by a firm outside of London, despite his astounding qualifications, but paradoxically it seems this event is meant to emphasise the recurrent theme of the cinematic retelling of this story that Anything is affirmable with enough persistence and effort.