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Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Table -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Part 1: What I Go to School For -- Chapter 2: Teaching Duquan Weems: Fallacies of the Hero-Teacher Construct as Seen in The Wire -- The Hero-Teacher as Mediated Pedagogy -- Prez, Dukie, and The Wire -- Do We Lie to Our Students When We Perpetuate Pervasive Hero Discourses? -- Is the Hero-Teacher Disposition: So Often Lauded and Rewarded by Educators: Even a Tolerable Ethical Ideal Among Those Who Claim to Value It? -- Is Teacher Heroism and its Contagions-Meritocracy, Individualism, and the Possibility for Socio-Economic Uplift Among Learners-Nonetheless a Necessary Conceit in Contemporary Schools? -- Do Prez and Dukie Instruct Us About an Irreconcilable Tension in the Values Contemporary Educational Systems Tend to Hold Dearest? -- References -- Chapter 3: O Captain, My Captain! Robin Williams and Transformative Learning in Dead Poets Society, Good Will Hunting and Patch Adams -- Robin Williams (1951-2014) -- Transformative Learning: Key Terms -- Frames of Reference, Habits of Mind and Points of View -- Dead Poets Society: Teacher Techniques for Change -- Good Will Hunting: Change Through Therapy -- Patch Adams: Student of Change -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Investigating the "Teacher Savior": Veronica Mars and the Mysteries of Education -- Introduction -- Initiation, Neptune, and Mars -- Mystery, Inequity, and Salvation -- Teacher as Human/e -- Savior as Suspect -- "You're a Marshmallow, Veronica Mars" -- References -- Chapter 5: Wiz Kids: An Exploration of Pedagogy in the World of Harry Potter, from Remus Lupin's Differentiated Reconstructionism to Dolores Umbridge's Discipline-Focused Essentialism -- Instruction at Hogwarts -- The Traditionalists -- The Modernists -- Conclusion: From Hogwarts to Muggledom -- References.