Observational Filmmaking for Education

1. Front Matter

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2. Introducing Observational Film

   • Nigel Meager

   Pages 1-37

3. Experiential Empiricism and Children’s Films

   • Nigel Meager

   Pages 39-72

4. Academic Frames

   • Nigel Meager

   Pages 73-115

5. Ethics

   • Nigel Meager

   Pages 117-130

6. Camera Work and Editing for Children, Teachers and Researchers

   • Nigel Meager

   Pages 131-195

7. Epilogue

   • Nigel Meager

   Pages 197-214

8. Back Matter

   Pages 215-224

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This book places observational filmmaking in the context of the rapidly developing landscape of creativity and arts based research in education. The author uses observational filmmaking as a lens to address debates surrounding video based and arts based research. Utilising the work of Dewey and Deleuze as the theoretical underpinnings of the volume, this is combined with numerous practical examples of observational filmmaking in schools. The author argues that observational video camera and editing techniques combine careful observation with rigorous visual analysis: they place sensory, affectual and aesthetic qualities in experience centre stage. While observational filmmaking in itself has enormous potential as a methodology for education research, it may also become a fulcrum for children’s learning. Children record their experiences in the world around them as they look carefully with a video camera. This pioneering yet practical book will be of interest and value to students and scholars of creativity, learning, and education research methods, as well as constituting a useful guide for teachers, arts practitioners and education policy makers.

• Educational media
• Educational research methods
• Creative education
• Media education
• Ethnocinema
• observational filmmaking

• King’s College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

  Nigel Meager

Nigel Meager is an Associate of King’s College, University of Cambridge, UK.

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