This document presents the proceedings of the 18th Annual Research Forum held June 26, 2013, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Included are the following 13 action research papers: (1) Developing Oral Language Ability in the Secondary Spanish Classroom Using the Interpersonal and Presentational Modes of Communication…

The announced general focus of the 1972 Oberlin Film Conference was "Goals, Methods, and Scope of Film Study in the 70's," the intention being to emphasize the conceptualization of the cinema experience as messages within larger sets of discourse. To this end, each student submitted an application essay and participated at the conference in…

This report on a conference, which brought together representatives of various humanistic disciplines to explore the cross-disciplinary appeal of film study as well as the use of film in stimulating scholarship and teaching, includes a narrative summary of the day's conversations and issues raised, as well as of reprints of articles that suggest…

The items in this report represent the proceedings of a national conference that examined the diversity in the objectives and processes of instruction present in university-level programs in film/video education and sought to identify a common core of systematic procedures that could serve as a basis for defining the discipline of film/video. The…

This volume contains papers read at West Virginia University's Colloquium on "The Teacher in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature and Film" including the following 12 articles listed with their authors: "A Second Pair of Eyes: The Editor as Teacher" (Hart L. Wegner); "Don Juan Goes to the Movies" (Armand E.…

These proceedings include papers presented and summarize information and ideas exchanged by teachers and educators concerned with the development of media studies in all sectors of education in Scotland at a 1-day conference. The first part of the conference considered the nature and concept of media studies and the degree to which such studies…

Following a Curriculum Development Workshop-Seminar in media which was designed to prepare teachers to implement courses and programs in their own schools, teachers from elementary, secondary, and community college levels of instruction prepared written responses detailing their goals and objectives and collected them in this document. Contents…

This report contains a selection of contributed papers and presentations from a conference attended by 270 educators and media workers committed to formulate a vision for media education in South Africa. Pointing out that media education has been variously described in South Africa as visual literacy, mass media studies, teleliteracy, and film…

Useful models and ideas for multicultural and cross-cultural educators at all levels who want to use anthropological concepts and processes in the classroom are provided in eight papers. Papers describe six different projects which (1) involved high school students in the collection and analysis of data about local youth cultures; (2) engaged…