In order to build a better understanding of the conditions needed for religious and non-religious coexistence in Europe, to support values and practices of peaceful co-existence, and to promote and enhance mutual dialogue and understanding the European Union research programme Horizon2020 launched a call for the development of innovative…

Documentary films created by children and youth have the power to facilitate discussions in classrooms and at family dinner tables, and to promote global competency, empathy, and action. Through the medium of documentary film, young people are able to speak across experiences and lines of class, race, and nationality. Rather than being talked down…

Alongside Walt Disney's animated movies, television programming, and theme parks, scholars have examined The Walt Disney Studios' "True-Life Adventures" series of live-action nature documentary films for their impact on popular culture. Historians, however, have mostly overlooked the significance of the "True-Life Adventures"…

Aware of the complexity of the ecological dilemmas his young daughter would have to face in the future, Damon Gameau made a documentary that was an experiment in using solutions as a motivator and an experiment in trying to kick-start the public's imagination. In this article, he discusses the film and the actions that have stemmed from it,…

This paper provides an overview of a Critical Race Feminista praxis-oriented methodological framework in development called FilmCrit, and a critical race method expanded into filmic form called Cinematic Critical Race Counterstorytelling. Critical Race Feminisita Praxis informs this work by drawing on a Critical Race Theory in Education framework…

The use of documentary, and in turn the value of documentary, is well established in formal education contexts. In addition to an established pedagogical value, this article examines the cultural and economic value of documentary in education through both national legislative reviews (the Australian Law Reform Commission's (ALRC's) "Copyright…

In a society steeped in media, teacher educators receive an education inside and outside the classroom. Thus, we aim to engage in critical race media literacy through an analysis of "Hello Privilege. It's Me, Chelsea." We do so through a frame of white fragility (DiAngelo, 2011) and white emotionalities (Matias, 2016). In this article,…

This paper describes a curricular project in which a network of media educators, in making a case for the educational and social values of an interactive documentary, integrated it in a media degree program to encourage activism in students and promote civic engagement. The project provides valid and important results in an immediate sense, while…

How does environmental knowledge move from an expert's books into the life and learning of a small community? Diana Beresford-Kroeger, a renowned author of "The Global Forest and Arboretum America, A Philosophy of the Forest," kindly agreed to an interview with Simon Heath, organiser of a rural literary festival. In working with the…

In the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, some who were unable to cope with the devastation and the failure to prevent them turned to alternative explanations as to how and why these attacks occurred. Coinciding with the growth of the internet, hyper-partisan news sources, and misinformation, a vast number of 9/11 conspiracy theories emerged…

The following article describes the process of a documentary filmmaking programme at a secondary school in Chile, which encourages students to engage with a sense of place and intangible cultural heritage. Run by Gaticine -- Centro de desarrollo social del cine (Centre for the Social Development of Cinema) in partnership with A Bao A Qu, a…

Students often have limited opportunities in school to grapple with the ramifications of the increasing influence technology companies exert over their lives. Digital citizenship curricula could be the exception, but they typically emphasize personal safety and respectful behavior online, ignoring more participatory or justice-oriented notions of…

This article explores how soccer can be used as a lens to teach about German history, culture, and society. I outline three sample modules for an advanced German course at the high school or college level: The first module focuses on soccer in German history, the second on sexism and LGBTQ-related topics in soccer, and the third on soccer and…

There exists a dearth of textbooks for teaching medical Spanish and Spanish for law, justice, and human services through a social justice lens. In addition, many texts do not meet the needs of learners with disparate language proficiency levels of Spanish and varying depth and breadth of knowledge about these topics. The literature has identified…

In order to explore how experiences with youth media production resonate with people throughout their lives, we conducted video interviews with alumni from the Educational Video Center's youth documentary programs across the organization's history of more than 30 years. We talked with alumni and watched their films together to see what memories…