Abstract:

Even if the informal education begins in a family, the first formal institution in which an individual who begins his/her student life is accepted as at the school. A teacher, the main character of education, is the one who directly or indirectly affects not only the educational life of a student but also social life in a formal institution. The teacher is known to have an essential place in being a role model to both students and social environment. Cinema has also handled teachers who are seen as role models, and therefore the theme of education in lots of movies from its early periods. In educational-themed movies, it is observed that the representations of teachers may diffrentiate in terms of either periodically or on preference when the teacher is represented within the perspective of the directors in cinematic representation. So, the represantions of teachers may coincide with real life or not. Reha Erdem, who has an unique style, also handle the components of educational phenomenon such as schools, teachers and students in his movies directly or indirectly. The aim of this study is to determine how the representation of the teacher in the movies Beş Vakit-Times and Winds (2006) and Hayat Var-My Only Sunshine (2008). The movies were selected as samples from Reha Erdem movies in which child characters have a formal education. Within the scope of this study, we will have a look at the reflection of education and the representations of teacher in Turkish movies in the first part and the biography of Reha Erdem and in his feature films in the second part. In the last part of the study, we will discuss the findings of the representation in the movies as indifferent, authoritatiran (stuffed) and punitive teachers in Beş Vakit-Times and Winds (2006) and Hayat Var-My Only Sunshine (2008) as seleceted as sample movies.

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