Making Films in a Brazilian Slum with Children: a Participant Observation Research

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7559/citarj.v11i1.591

Abstract

This article stands for innovative learning opportunities to social inclusion by film education. The theoretical model is a combined structure coming from approaches and projects of social inclusion by film education. The aim is to describe and analyze the film education process in a project outside school. This research is based on a participant observation research conducted on children in a Brazilian slum. Cinema, as other art forms, is a political and ideological tool that can be used with different purposes. Film education is a strong mediator to facilitate transformative learning, changing one’s dysfunctional views and beliefs about oneself and the world by revising their frames of reference (Mezirow & Taylor, 2009). Films have a unique ability to promote empathy towards a role model, and promote resilience in situations similar to those the role model goes through. Furthermore, media, such as films, is capable of reaching people that might otherwise be uninterested (Buckingham, 2007; Gonnet, 2007; Silverstone, 2005; UNESCO, 2013).  

Author Biography

Raquel Pacheco, CIAC - Centre for Research in Arts and Communication, University of Algarve FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology
Raquel Pacheco is Postdoctoral Researcher at the CIAC - Centre for Research in Arts and Communication and FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology. She completed her PhD in Communication Sciences in University NOVA of Lisbon (2016). She is member of COST Action DigiLitEY. Her research interests include: children and yout, media study, film and audiovisual education. She developed the project CITIS in 2004 which works with marginalized children and youth using film education as a tool for transformative learning. She has also published a book on this topic and methodology titled “Jovens, Media e Estériotipos: Diário de Campo numa Escola Dita Problemática”.

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Published
2019-09-10
Issue
Vol 11 No 1 (2019): Volume 11 - Number 1, 2019 (Special Issue)
Section
Marginalized Narratives - Special Issue

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