If we hope to achieve a level
of emotional engagement in our players that rivals that of the best films and novels, we must do so by leveraging the thing that makes games unique: interactivity:)
The process requires a sensitive, responsive parent who is
capable of emotional engagement and participation in contingent collaborative communication (responsive communication) at nonverbal and verbal levels.
As in Lanthimos's Dogtooth, minus the urge to shock and with the addition of a
sense of emotional engagement, Tsangari centers her film on an unusually naive main character.
By leveraging these skills, and capitalizing on the
catalyst of emotional engagement (our stock on the shelf), we can bring about significant student achievement.The challenge for us in the arts education community is to demonstrate how teachers can employ those very same skills in their teaching, whatever the discipline.
Her subjects are real, but any information gleaned is in spite of Nashashibi's «alienation» techniques, as she runs the film backwards, focuses on apparently irrelevant details and cuts whenever there's any
danger of emotional engagement.