The Constructive Strategies in Teaching Humanities with Films

The main research question: is it possible to apply the constructive methods of education in teaching humanitieswith films. The skeptics suppose: it is not possible for several reasons. The article starts the discussion, suggestssome arguments for justification of positive answer and reveals several different possible experiences of includingconstructionism in teaching humanities with films. The theoretical premises for these approaches are the pragmaticpedagogy of John Dewey, Deleuzean theory of cinema and Paul Ricouer’s theory of personal identityThe authors discovered and suggested three possible ways of using constructive strategy in the process of teachingwith films: 1. Creation of the students their own multimodal projects, trying to find proper images for their ideas; 2.Watching films alongside with reflection of some philosophical concepts, afterwards writing essays and presentingthem to the group in the discussion as the possibility to encounter the glimpses of reality from the different specterof perspectives; 3. Using film as a challenge to purify student’s own mimetic processes by placing them in a broadermetaphorical context. The film in this case is the imaginative-metaphorical construction of the personal identificationprocess. The authors discuss the three strategies as parallel, not opposing or excluding each other. All threestrategies lead to the constructing students’ world view not with very concrete separate elements of clear shapeand content, but with elements of absolutely different level, plane, from the different assemblages and enlarge thecapacity of their critical and creative thinking. Also these approaches develop their social capacities – the ability ofthe understanding and communication with the different other.

ISBN:978-609-95760-1-5

Publication year:2018