International Collaborative Studies I(Basic)
| Numbering Code | G-EDU13 56010 SE47 | Year/Term | 2022 ・ Intensive, Second semester | |
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| Number of Credits | Course Type | topics seminar | ||
| Target Year | Master's students | Target Student | ||
| Language | English | Day/Period | Intensive | |
| Instructor name |
SAITOU NAOKO (Graduate School of Education Professor) STANDISH, Paul (Part-time Lecturer) |
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| Outline and Purpose of the Course |
＜The purpose of this course＞ *This seminar will be jointly organized with Professor Paul Standish at UCL Institute of Education. Thinking about education through film. This course will follow ground-breaking work in film as a medium of philosophical enquiry into education. It will examine film texts to explore the ways in which film as a medium aids the understanding of experience and education in what has been called a post-literate, image-driven society. It will explore the potential of film analysis in relation to such features of contemporary society as digitization, textuality, and changing patterns of conversation. The course has relevance not only to the understanding of the changing world in which young people grow up but to questions of teaching and learning through film. In particular, it builds on work undertaken by the UCL Institute of Education-Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Philosophy of Education Research Colloquium. Over the past ten years, this colloquium has researched education by means of film analysis in an innovative and highly productive way. The processes of teaching and learning adopted on the course are themselves occasions for reflections on pedagogy and introduction to productive ways of teaching. |
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| Course Goals |
1. To acquire a command of reading in the high sense. 2. To acquire a sophisticated level of oral communication in English. 3. To acquire skill for academic writing in English. |
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| Schedule and Contents |
Humanities, liberal arts and higher education This course addresses the role of the humanities and liberal arts in higher education today. In what is sometimes called the crisis of the humanities, the role of liberal arts education has been appreciated anew. University education today has been more and more driven by specialization and fragmentation. William Deresiewicz (2016) calls for remembering the significance of liberal arts education. Its purpose, he says, is “to liberate us from doxa by teaching us to recognize it, to question it, and to think our way around” (p. 80). Deresiewicz here quotes from Alan Bloom: “Liberal education puts everything at risk and requires students who are able to risk everything” (p. 80). He reminds us of the importance of liberal arts education: this can lead us to our awareness of other possibilities, hence, the state of own captivity, and of the significance of opening ourselves to a global, integral mode of thinking, being released from the narrowing of scopes in specialization. By watching two films – Educating Rita (1983, directed by Lewis Gilbert) and Kokoro (1955, directed by Kon Ichikawa) – we shall explore how liberal arts education today can contribute to resuscitating the role of humanities in higher education. Introduction: Film, philosophy and education. 2. The work of the camera (1) -- illustrative examples, drawing on online resources from the British Film Institute, and developed through careful consideration of the filmic techniques exploited in a ground-breaking film of the 1930s. 3. The work of the camera (2) 4. Reviewing of the above film, with reference to editing techniques, and developing notions of metonomy as characteristic of film technique. 5. Set, costume design, music and dialogue, etc.: from screenplay to mise-en-ne. 6. Genre and the star system 7. Viewing and close analysis of "Educating Rita" (1). 8. Close analysis of scenes from "Educating Rita" (2) 9. Viewing and close analysis of "Kokoro" (2006)(1). 10. Close analysis of "Kokoro" (2) 11. Close analysis of "Kokoro" (3) 12. Review of general themes in the course: education, conversation, and transformation. 13. Exploration of the significance of film as a means of thinking philosophically about education. 14. Consideration of the pedagogical potential of film as a means of education, where the students are invited to develop examples of films that might be appropriately adopted in particular contexts. 15. Feedback |
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| Evaluation Methods and Policy |
【評価基準】 Participation in discussion 30% Final essay (2000 words in English) 70% *The essay must be proofread by a native speaker before submission. 【評価方針】到達目標について、教育学研究科の評価方針に従って評価する。 |
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| Course Requirements |
As this course will be taught mainly in English, a good command of English is required. 1. To read the assigned text before classes. 2. To discuss the points of teaching with other students during and after classes. 3. To prepare for a final essay during the course. |
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| Study outside of Class (preparation and review) |
1. To read the assigned text before classes. 2. To discuss the points of teaching with other students during and after classes. 3. To prepare for a final essay during the course. |
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| Textbooks | Textbooks/References |
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to Meaningful Life, William Deresiewicz, (Free Press, 2014), ISBN:978-1-4767-0272-8, 邦訳 ウィリアム・デレズウィッツ『優秀なる羊たち』（三省堂 2016年） The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students, Alan Bloom, (Simon & Schuster, 1987), ISBN:978-0671479909 Walden, in Walden and Resistance to Civil Government (ed. William Rossi ), Henry, D. Thoreau, (W. W. Norton & Company, 1992), 邦訳：ソロー『森の生活／ウォールデン』(1995)（飯田実訳） We shall watch the following films: Educating Rita (1983) directed by Lewis Gilbert Kokoro (1955) directed by Kon Ichikawa |
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| References, etc. | その他関連教材を授業時に配布する。 | |||
