Seeing Education on Film: A Conceptual Aesthetics

Alexis Gibbs

Informasi Umum

Kode

20.21.2056

Klasifikasi

791.437 - films. description, critical apraisal of specific films

Jenis

Buku - Elektronik (E-Book)

Subjek

Film, Education,

No. Rak

Dilihat

94 kali

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Abstraksi

The final postscript to this book is really a note on pedagogy, thinking about how film might be used as an education in education (the study of education, or Education Studies). As such, it introduces something after the event: criticism. If films return us to the site of our learning word and world together, then criticism is the moment at which we, as viewers, put those words back to work, to test the ways in which our words do justice to (our experience of) the world. While the previous chapters engage in film criticism with the aim of seeing aspects to education on film that are otherwise overlooked, this last section gives a name to criticism as the expressive counterbalance to the experience of film-viewing. The kind of criticism I have in mind involves what Cavell describes as “the persistent exercise of your own taste, and hence the willingness to challenge your taste as it stands, to form your own artistic conscience, hence nowhere but in the details of your encounter with specific works” (TS, 11). Herein lies the practical implication of considering education in terms of a conceptual aesthetics: in the Education Studies classroom, film prompts the exercise of a student’s own perception and voice in relation to the concept of education, a conversation in which they must be just as able to participate as any other, if they are to form an appreciation of education and not just be informed of its various definitions and theoretical approaches.