UNC School of Education

>> Trier, James

James Trier is interested in investigating critical methods to engage pre-service teachers in theoretical explorations of various important educational issues by considering ─ simultaneously, in juxtaposition ─ academic and popular culture texts.  He began this line of research in his dissertation, which is titled “Exploring the Cinematic Representation of Teachers, Students and Schools with Pre-service Teachers.” Subsequently he has published articles on “Inquiring into ‘Techniques of Power’ with Pre-service Teachers through the ‘School Film’ The Paper Chase” (Teaching and Teacher Education); “Exploring the Concept of ‘Habitus’ with Pre-service Teachers through the Use of Popular School Films” (Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education); “Designing School Film ‘Videocollages’ as Pedagogical Texts in Pre-service Education” (Taboo:  The Journal of Culture and Education); “School Film ‘Videocompilations’ as Pedagogical Texts in Pre-service Education (Journal of Curriculum Theorizing); “Detournement as Pedagogical Praxis” (Journal of Thought); “‘Sordid Fantasies’: Reading Popular ‘Inner-City’ School Films as Racialized Texts with Pre-service Teachers” (Race, Ethnicity and Education); and “Pedagogy of the Obsessed” (Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy).