We are pleased to announce a new article on the Notes on Research and Practice section from CUFA colleagues, Alan S. Marcus and Jeremy D. Stoddard, about teaching history with feature film.
Teaching History with Feature Film
Alan S. Marcus, University of Connecticut
Jeremy D. Stoddard, College of William and Mary
The viewing of a film in the social studies classroom, or any classroom for that matter, used to be a novelty. It was generally used to break up the usual classroom routine, to provide some motivation for students, or to show students a more dramatic version of the past than was possible in filmstrips (Cuban, 1986). Over the past twenty plus years, however, the production and delivery technologies for visual media have become more accessible and more cost effective, resulting in a vast sea of visual media available from classroom use. This increase in visual media access, along with more technology in today’s classrooms, has led to frequent use of news clips, documentaries, television programs, and feature film use by social studies teachers...
Full article here.