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Peer reviewedHarper, Ruth E.; Rogers, Lawrence E. – Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development, 1999
Gives evidence of how and why feature films are effective instructional tools, particularly when teaching concepts of human development to college students. Explains that use of films helps to dramatize and frame issues, generate discussion, and provide links with personal experience. Uses several examples from movies to help explain the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Films, Higher Education
McNeil, Don W. – 1980
This collection of five papers provides guidance and background reading for librarians in the use of films, educational television, audiolearning, programmed learning, and visual learning in the presentation of library instruction programs. The instructional media discussed in each guide are intended to complement and supplement oral classroom and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction, Educational Television
Download full textGregg, Virginia R.; And Others – 1995
Using feature films to teach undergraduate psychology courses can promote active learning for several reasons. Films can reach students with a variety of learning styles, including those with a visual approach to learning. Also, students seem to enjoy commercial films and their use can help decrease levels of monotony from daily lectures. Feature…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Audiovisual Aids, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction
Marriott, McKim – 1972
A village in the rural area of India--Kishan Garhi-- is studied in this visually oriented social studies unit designed for higher education students. Concerned with the contemporary condition of human society rather than the historical evolution of the third world, this unit deals with the process of rural social change and the interaction of…
Descriptors: Asian Studies, Community Change, Community Study, Comparative Analysis
Baca, Judy Clark, Ed.; And Others – 1992
This book of readings consists of selected papers presented under five topics: (1) Research and Theory--18 papers including research on visual effects on attitude and cognition, students of different field dependence levels, modern and postmodern design on reader perceptions of news, effects of gray shades, short-term memory capacity differences,…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Creativity
