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Getting to know you
— using documentary video-making to challenge ageist stereotypes | | Author(s) | Terry Lee |
| Journal title | Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, vol 33, no 3, July-September 2012 |
| Pages | pp 272-286 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Ageism ; Schools ; Education ; Universities ; University education ; Videos. |
| Annotation | The article theorises that augmenting traditional humanities course work with documentary video-making can enhance and motivate learning. The author begins by reviewing scholarly research on using digital video in classrooms, from primary school level to college. The author then describes his own documentary video project which focused on ageing and the lives of older people in an adult daycare centre and a retirement community. Students documented older people's stories in video over 15 weeks. The instructor's goal was to use the immediacy of video to challenge and dismantle ageist stereotypes. The writer concludes that documentary video-making is a simple and enticing technology that gives students a powerful tool for getting to know older people. Scholarship on classroom uses of digital video-making is discussed and critical comments from the five reflective essays students wrote during the semester are used to track changes in student perceptions of older people. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-121102201 A |
| Classmark | B:TOB: V3: V: V5: V7M: 6UW |
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