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Lee, Seung Chun – Intercultural Education, 2019
This article discusses the pedagogical opportunities to use film as a tool to supplement lecture and classroom learning activities in a pre-service teachers' course in a Malaysian higher education setting. While the multicultural participants participated in two academic courses to learn how to teach spoken English to young learners, movie…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Higher Education, Films, Critical Viewing
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Banas, John A.; Miller, Gregory – Human Communication Research, 2013
This investigation examined the boundaries of inoculation theory by examining how inoculation can be applied to conspiracy theory propaganda as well as inoculation itself (called metainoculation). A 3-phase experiment with 312 participants compared 3 main groups: no-treatment control, inoculation, and metainoculation. Research questions explored…
Descriptors: Desensitization, Resistance (Psychology), Theories, Propaganda
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Russell, William B., III; Waters, Stewart – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2014
The middle school years are a critical time in the physical, intellectual, and moral growth of young adolescents. This article examines how film can be used to engage students in moral-dilemma discussions to promote critical thinking and character development. The authors argue that the use of film in the classroom can challenge students to expand…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Values Education, Moral Development, Critical Thinking
Goncalves, Ana Luisa; Fandos, Manuel; Aguaded, Jose-Ignacio – Online Submission, 2011
This article synthesises an investigation of the making of a didactic programme as a consequence of the excess of consumption of audiovisual messages and the non critical and non-thoughtful attitude the youngsters have towards it. As an answer to this problem, the authors have produced a didactical programme about cinema and its language, the main…
Descriptors: Films, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 6
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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
Hayward, Pamela A. – 1998
The use of film to supplement course material can be an excellent way to stimulate critical thinking. Film can be a particularly useful tool in the interpersonal communication course since students are able to observe both the verbal and nonverbal behaviors of the characters. However, discussion prior to and following the film is important, so…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Critical Viewing, Curriculum Enrichment, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Franza, August – 1989
This student workbook provides information about mass media and invites students to consider and respond to that information. Students are encouraged to use reading, writing, researching, critical thinking, interpreting, and debating skills in their responses. The book is organized into 8 chapters: (1) "The World of Media"; (2) "Television: Is…
Descriptors: Advertising, Critical Thinking, Critical Viewing, Elementary Secondary Education
Trier, James D. – 2000
This paper describes the use of school films (popular movies that are in some way about an educator or student) to engage student teachers in critically reflective practice. The paper begins by describing the main goals of the effort, examining the basic structure of the practicum that involves these films, and explaining the various constraints…
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Critical Thinking, Critical Viewing, Elementary Secondary Education
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McBride, Robert, Jr. – Social Education, 1999
Endorses the television series entitled "Culture Shock" that views controversial art as an artifact suggesting that the arts, and controversies surrounding them, can help viewers think critically about the issues of past and present societies. Focuses on "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," the painting "Olympia,"…
Descriptors: Art, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Critical Thinking, Critical Viewing
Semali, Ladislaus – 1997
This paper introduces five concepts that guide teachers' and students' critical inquiry in the understanding of media and visual representation. In a step-by-step process, the paper illustrates how these five concepts can become a tool with which to critique and examine film images of indigenous people. The Sani are indigenous people of the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Critical Viewing, Cultural Images, Ethnic Groups
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Considine, David M. – Social Studies, 1989
Considers three approaches to using entertainment films in history and social studies classes. Provides a list of Hollywood films currently available on videotape and a list of books, articles, and journals dealing with the role of film in society. (GG)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Critical Thinking, Critical Viewing, Filmographies
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Smith, Ken – History and Social Science Teacher, 1989
Outlines classroom techniques for analyzing historical films and documentaries. Provides student materials to develop media literacy. Suggests that role-playing might be useful in stimulating student consideration of the actual production of a documentary. Emphasizes the transfer of critical insights developed in class to other media experiences.…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Critical Viewing, Documentaries, Films
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Melamed, Lanie – History and Social Science Teacher, 1989
Stresses that media literacy is a skill which can and must be learned in the classroom. Urges that media be placed on center stage not merely used as audio-visual aids. Lists eight statements which can serve as the basis of curricula concerned with media literacy. Suggests pedagogical approaches to the subject. (KO)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Critical Thinking, Critical Viewing, Discovery Learning
Considine, David M.; Haley, Gail E. – 1992
This book argues that people live simultaneously in two different cultures. Values of the first culture are imparted to children through curriculum in the nation's public school classrooms. The second culture is the world of mass communication that promotes consumption, instant gratification, and impulse. The clash between these cultures confronts…
Descriptors: Advertising, Agenda Setting, Critical Thinking, Critical Viewing