- Ankara Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Fakültesi Dergisi
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- The Great-Teacher Myth: Turkish Cinema vs. World Cinema
The Great-Teacher Myth: Turkish Cinema vs. World Cinema
Authors : Hüseyin Barut, Mustafa Sever
Pages : 1033-1096
Doi:10.30964/auebfd.1599091
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Publication Date : 2025-12-15
Article Type : Research Paper
Abstract :The aim of this study is to trace “the great-teacher myth” in the examples of the Turkish and the world cinema and unpack the symbolic messages about the teaching profession by the way of analyzing the films in which the great or bad teacher characters take part. In the study, a method of qualitative research, content analysis, is applied. The terminology of the “Symbolic Convergence Theory” (SCT) is used to predicate the study on the theorotical base and fulfill its objectivity. The Turkish and the world cinema examples produced between 1930 - 2015 and in which the teachers are presented as the leading or supporting characters constitute the population of the study. The sample of the study is 60 films examples from 21 different countries (including Türkiye) which constitute pro-argument or counter argument to the great-teacher myth. The sample of the study is mainly divided into two groups: “The teachers on the light side” and “the teachers on the dark side.” Subsequent to this division the Turkish and the world cinema examples are thematically classified as sub-categories enabling them to compare with one another. The contained symbolic messages, via both the great and bad teacher characters in terms of the scenes included, are analyzed in the film examples of these sub-categories. In the consequence of the analyses it is found that the Turkish cinema examples included in the study contain relatively higher rated pro-argument to the great-teacher myth. In this context it is deduced that, especially in Turkish cinema, via the great-teacher characters, who are hardly possible to meet in the real world, a kind of teacher stereotype is imposed upon the audience. Also, the contained symbolic messages of the films about the teachers and the teaching profession are variable as “positive”, “both positive and negative” and “negative.Keywords : Fantezi teması/tipi, harika öğretmen miti, retorikal topluluk/vizyon, sembolik yakınsallık teorisi.
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