A comprehensive overview of
what film education means (with British accents!)
Not exact matches
One example would be Aimee Dorr Leifer's essay entitled «Teaching with Television and
Film,» (TTF) published in N. L. Gage's The Psychology of Teaching Methods, a widely read Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of
Education.1 Even in this essay, however, Leifer reviews
what has been learned from various psychological studies of television and
film narratives, and the limited range of the studies limits the vision of narrative teaching that she puts forth.
The
film itself is an excellent introduction to Second Life and its use for
education and persuasion — if you've never played in this virtual world, the video will give you a sense of
what it's like and why people are drawn to it as a place to spread political messages.
«I loved
what this
film said about family, how important
education is, and found it hysterically funny.
It's hard to imagine that Lars von Trier would approve, but who the shit really cares
what that guy thinks when Scherfig's concession to a warmer world of storytelling resulted in a
film as true and full - bodied as An
Education?
It was a very bad year for Hollywood
films, and not much better for so - called U.S. «independents», with Whiplash being arguably the most overrated
film of the year, totally misrepresenting both jazz music and jazz
education, while typifying in its Hollywood - ending
what is wrong with Sundance existing as a professional calling - card festival.
I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful
film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental
education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure
what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night
film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire
film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the
film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little
film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.
And
what about the college newspapers, where the explosion in
film education over the past 20 years has generated dozens of undergraduate critics who already know more than some of their elders will ever learn?
An
Education shares with Hornby's best work trenchant insight into the way smart, hyper - verbal young people let the music,
films, books, and art they love define themselves as they figure out who they are and
what they want to be.
To tie in with Anti-Bullying Week 2014 (November 17 - 22) Into Film, an
education charity supported by the BFI with Lottery funding, has developed a resource featuring six carefully selected
films — three for primary and three for secondary — to promote discussion about bullying and related themes such as friendship, standing up for
what is right and the power of groups, positive and negative.
Today, in the wake of new energy in Washington D.C., new focus in the educational and philanthropic communities, and with the recent release of the
film «Waiting for Superman,» the nation is getting a better picture of
what is wrong with public
education in America.
Compton's
film is partly responsible, but
what the leaders of BASIS say in the
film runs squarely against some of the soundest convictions in
education circles.
We are filmmakers and not educators, but
what we've learned over the course of making this
film is that in this country, a traditional
education does not encourage thinking, instead it encourages conforming to a system that doesn't value the individual child and completely misses the point when it comes to learning.
The educational force of the wider culture is now the primary site where
education takes place,
what I have called public pedagogy — modes of
education largely produced, mediated, and circulated through a range of educational spheres extending from the new media and old broadcast media to
films, newspapers, television programs, cable TV, cell phones, the Internet, and other commercial sites.
Not - for - profit
education provider, TrueTube, has launched Refugee, a powerful
film to help young people understand the refugee crisis, by showing
what might happen if the UK were a warzone.
SAN FRANCISCO, California (October 18, 2017)-- Facing History and Ourselves and The Allstate Foundation will present «
What Tomorrow Brings,» a Youth Lead Community Conversation on Thursday, October 19 at the Clark Kerr Conference Center from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Students from across the San Francisco Bay Area will attend a special screening of the
film What Tomorrow Brings, followed by a conversation with director Beth Murphy and founder of the Zabuli
Education Center, Razia Jan..
But the
film's distortion of the facts prompts a closer examination of its funders and backers and a closer look at those promoting Parent Trigger as a cure for
what ails the American
education system.
Watch our 4 short
films to find out
what financial
education is, where it fits in the curriculum, how to teach it and how Young Money can help you!
By watching this
film, you will receive an excellent
education and you will feel empowered because you will * know *
what you can do to make a difference.