Grasping the social through movies

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dc.citation.epage14en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber1en_US
dc.citation.spage1en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber16en_US
dc.contributor.authorKennedy, N. F.en_US
dc.contributor.authorŞenses, N.en_US
dc.contributor.authorAyan, P.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-08T09:54:28Z
dc.date.available2016-02-08T09:54:28Z
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.description.abstractIn Turkey, one of the major challenges that university education faces is the indifference of young people towards social issues. The aim of this article is to contribute to the practice of critical pedagogy by proposing that showing movies is an important critical teaching method with the power both to give pleasure to the students and to develop their interest in crucial social issues. To support our argument, we showed three movies to students taking Sociology and Social Psychology courses in three successive academic terms on the topics 'the death penalty', 'gender equality' and 'prejudice'. Analysing the essays which the students were asked to write on these movies, we observed growing interest and an increase in critical thinking on the issues in question. We then conducted a survey to test this change quantitatively. The results indicate that showing movies is very influential in helping students to develop an interest and critical perspective. ©2011 Taylor & Francis.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13562517.2010.507305en_US
dc.identifier.issn1356-2517
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/22028
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2010.507305en_US
dc.source.titleTeaching in Higher Educationen_US
dc.subjectCritical perspectiveen_US
dc.subjectCritical teachingen_US
dc.subjectInterest developmenten_US
dc.subjectMovie showingen_US
dc.subjectSocial psychologyen_US
dc.subjectSociologyen_US
dc.titleGrasping the social through moviesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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