Opening the Learning Process: The Potential Role of Feature Film in Teaching Employment Relations

Autor/in	Lafferty, George
Titel	Opening the Learning Process: The Potential Role of Feature Film in Teaching Employment Relations
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 56 (2016) 1, S.8-28 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1443-1394
Schlagwörter	Teaching Methods; Films; Graduate Study; Graduate Students; Student Diversity; Student Participation; Labor Relations; Popular Culture; Qualitative Research; Statistical Analysis; Observation; Teacher Attitudes; Questionnaires; Surveys; Likert Scales; Instructional Effectiveness + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Film; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Studentin; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Arbeitsbeziehung; Popkultur; Qualitative Forschung; Statistische Analyse; Beobachtung; Lehrerverhalten; Fragebogen; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Likert-Skala; Unterrichtserfolg
Abstract	This paper explores the potential of feature film to encourage more inclusive, participatory and open learning in the area of employment relations. Evaluations of student responses in a single postgraduate course over a five-year period revealed how feature film could encourage participatory learning processes in which students reexamined their initial perspectives on a series of employment relations topics and debates. Over time, the course became increasingly characterised by a pluralism in which all participants became more open to a range of different views, including those of students from diverse political, cultural and religious backgrounds. Of particular note was how the fictional situations depicted in feature films could expand the opportunities for participation and more complex, multidimensional approaches to learning. Following on from a discussion of how more open learning processes require a reconfigured conceptual framework, the paper concludes with some open-ended questions on the use of film in learning processes. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01