Using Film to Conduct Historical Inquiry with Middle School Students.
2007; Society for History Education; Volume: 40; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1945-2292
Autores Tópico(s)Digital Storytelling and Education
ResumoFILMS WITH HISTORICAL THEMES have always been my favourite genre of cinema. Films I saw in my youth like Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Dances With Wolves (1990), inspired my imagination and fostered my love of history. They played no small part in the screenplay of my life, landing me in the role of a middle school humanities teacher. This was probably because they influenced my historical understanding, and motivated me to read about and study the past. Consequently, I have always tried to use films when appropriate in my classroom. Admittedly, however, I never used film for much more than to help students visualize or get a sense of the past, and I never considered how film representations pervasively influence students' ideas about what the past was like. Because of the media-dominated culture in which we live, many educators recognize that many of our students' ideas about the past are constructed through the historically-themed film and television programs that they watch.' Arguably, a filmmaker such as Spielberg has educated more people about the experience of the Holocaust or the D-Day invasion than history teachers or textbook publishers could possibly dream of reaching.2 Seixas explains the impact of film on students' historical understanding:
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