Seeing Education on Film A Conceptual Aesthetics /

• Main Author: Gibbs, Alexis (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Learning.; Instruction.; Art education.; Communication.; Motion pictures > Production and direction.; Learning & Instruction.; Creativity and Arts Education.; Media and Communication.; Film and TV Production.

This book argues that certain films have more to offer by way of conceptualising education than textual scholarship. Drawing on the work of the later Wittgenstein, it suggests that a shift in our philosophical focus from knowing to seeing can allow for ordinary educational phenomena (teachers, schoo...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Seeing philosophically
• Chapter 3. Seeing philosophy on film
• Chapter 4. Seeing (re)education on film
• Chapter 5. Seeing the child on film
• Chapter 6. Samira Makhmalbaf: the filmmaker as educationalist
• Chapter 7. A postscript on film pedagogy: context, community and criticism.