The paper is entitled “Toward Structural Attribution: Using Detournement with Preservice Teachers to Challege the Teacher Savior Myth.”
The paper describes the use of dètournement, a term that describes the use of short films consisting of juxtaposed media to challenge myths in popular educational discourse. Boyd and Senta, both Ph.D. students in the culture, curriculum and change specialization, have worked with Associate Professor James Trier, who teaches about popular culture and representations of education.
In their study, Boyd and Senta describe pairing clips from contrasting documentaries and how that affected students’ perspectives in a variety of areas, including how they view teachers.