BBC NEWS | Education | Changing face of screen teachers


I was prompted into these musings on fictional teachers by the recently published book Carry on Teachers! by Susan Ellsmore. This is a rarity - a PhD that is actually readable and enjoyable.
She traces the evolution of representations of teachers in screen culture from Mr Chips (1939), through Jean Brodie (1969), to super-head Ian George, played by Lenny Henry in Hope And Glory (1999), and the amoral Simon Casey in Teachers (2001-04).