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Article: From banished to Brother Outsider, Miss Navajo to An Inconvenient Truth: documentary films as perspective-laden narratives.(Democracy Education)
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- Social Education
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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For years I had heard that the Sundance Film Festival is a veritable feast for social studies teachers. This year, I was fortunate to be able to attend this internationally-acclaimed film showcase as "press" for Social Education. (1) I traveled to Sundance to learn more about documentary films and to think with those whose business is filmmaking about what role this genre can, or should, play in social studies.
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My interest in documentary films was piqued by recent research about the ubiquity of such films in social studies classes, about why and how social studies teachers select and use them, and about what their students learn as a ...