In a market dominated by Hollywood, it is easy to overlook that the number of films (and televised productions) which are not in English is actually by far greater than those in English. However, although some non-English language film industries are vast, only a comparatively small number of productions are screened outside of their country of…

We review the film "Wonder Woman" as a teaching tool for leadership. The film illustrates transformational leadership, bases of power, and servant leadership while considering how gender plays into leadership. The approach we suggest is through a "movie club" activity in which the entire film is viewed, students are given…

This article emerges from a wider study on bicultural film archiving practice. It focuses on Jonathan Dennis as a subject of (my) archiving, and as a distinctive archivist himself in relation to a specific archive at a particular moment. Dennis' practice differed significantly from North American and European conventions contemporaneous with his…

The use of films as teaching and learning materials can provide a variety of opportunities for interaction in second language classrooms. Research on the usage of films in language-learning tasks to provide opportunities for learning and interaction, however, is scarce. Drawing on a database of video-recorded interactions in an upper-secondary…

This paper investigates the expectations and culture that first-year students encounter when entering higher education. Induction activities are the first encounter with the new institutional setting and cultural context of the study programme, thus the students' first opportunity to develop ideas about what studying entails and what is expected…

Encouraging all students to meaningfully engage with feedback on summative assessments is a vexing challenge for educators (Watling, 2016). Using formative feedback techniques as a formal part of a summative assessment allows for a guaranteed 'feed forward'. Group crits in the form of students and staff viewing their own and others work in an…

Participatory research is recognised as a tool to foreground the 'voices' of marginalised groups (Reason and Bradbury 2008). The context of migrant learners in South Africa's schools is often surrounded by regressive stereotypes about race, poverty and otherness, with xenophobia against foreigners a current concern (Ruedin 2019), but it is telling…

Our study explores the effectiveness of Team-Based Learning (TBL) using an online film analysis project in a management course. TBL is designed to foster student learning and develop interpersonal skills through collaboration. This study was administered in a senior- level, undergraduate management course across three semesters. The results…

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…

This practical article describes how three programs (two in high schools and one at a university) use photography, media, and television to engage students in the emotional work of developing gender-inclusive spaces. At the outset, the article briefly outlines how these classes use practices such as asking for pronouns, teaching nonbinary…

"Moneyball," the popular film adaptation of Michael Lewis's book on baseball, provides an engaging vehicle for teaching evidence-based management and decision-making bias, two topics that students without prior work experience may struggle to grasp. This article provides clip-by-clip examples of probing questions that can be used to…

Providing students with rich tasks that are both engaging and mathematically important is a vital aspect of teaching primary mathematics effectively. One means of supporting the development of rich tasks that meet these criteria is to embed them in a narrative. Narratives can aid in the development of mathematical understanding through a number of…

Film and video clips have been used in the classroom to bring economic concepts to life. The authors use the 2015 film "Joy" to animate Joseph Schumpeter's "The Theory of Economic Development," a foundational text on the theory of innovation and entrepreneurship that remains relevant for students today. They outline…

Scientists have the tendency to communicate their scientific accounts using linearly structured narratives (Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion; IMRAD). Likewise, the linear narrative is dominant -- due to force of habit -- when scientists prepare films about their research. Yet, this does not necessarily have to be the case for the new…

There is evidence that spatial thinking is malleable, and that spatial and mathematical skills are associated (Mix et al. [2016] "Journal of Experimental Psychology: General," 145, 1206; Mix et al. [2017] "Journal of Cognition and Development," 18, 465; Uttal et al. [2013] "Psychological Bulletin," 139, 352). However,…