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Woelders, Adam – Social Studies, 2007
Students' understanding of history may be shaped less by their social studies teachers than by the powerfully ubiquitous, historically themed media images they passively consume outside of school. In this article, the author describes two strategies conducted during a classroom-based action research study designed to explore how historically…
Descriptors: Critical Viewing, Student Surveys, Focus Groups, Documentaries

Cates, Ward Mitchell – Social Studies, 1990
Offers guidelines for teaching students to detect and analyze bias in films. Stresses that this enhances critical thinking. Suggests ways teachers can identify filmmaker's biases, and provides a Film Bias Analysis worksheet to help students identify bias and its methods of operation. (RW)
Descriptors: Bias, Content Analysis, Critical Thinking, Critical Viewing