Filmmaking by Students or Rethinking Thinking

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Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Romance Languages; College Second Language Programs; Program Descriptions; Teacher Education Programs; Films; Teaching Methods; Video Technology; Undergraduate Students; Graduate Students; Pedagogical Content Knowledge; Foreign Countries; Learning Processes; Technological Literacy; Student Attitudes

In 2013, the so-called Viducation project was launched at the Institute of Romance Studies at the University of Kiel4 (CAU) as a reaction to the new Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts degree programmes in order to improve students' learning skills and core competences by creating subject-related videos. Filmmaking by students is already widely used in primary and secondary schools, while teacher education is still hardly prepared for it (as shown for German teacher education training, Müller, 2012). The aim of this article is to present a learning approach that enables students to expand their subject knowledge in a sustainable, value-based, and personality-building way on the basis of constructivist learning theories by means of filmmaking. In this article, the authors explain the theoretical background of the learning approach 'Filmmaking by Students' and sum up empirical evidence of filmmaking in learning. [For the complete volume, "Promoting Professionalism, Innovation and Transnational Collaboration: A New Approach to Foreign Language Teacher Education," see ED624249.]

ERIC

2022

ED624280