Film, Politics & Education

The Editor: Kelvin Shawn Sealey, an educational consultant and lecturer, is co-founder, with John Broughton, of the Film and Education Research Academy (FERA) at Teachers College, Columbia University. His scholarly pursuits embrace the field of cultural studies and education, and include research in and the teaching of courses on cinema and education; architecture and education; entrepreneurship and education; and the educational spectacular, the subject of his doctoral thesis at Teachers College. He is also the founder and director of the Design Lab for Learning Organizations at the Columbia Graduate School for Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Dr. Sealey has edited or co-edited four published volumes: A Reader in Social Enterprise (2000); Restoring Hope (1997); The Media Reader (1997); and The Question of New Orleans (2006).

Contents: Kelvin Shawn Sealey: Introduction: Film, Politics, and Education: Cinematic Pedagogy Across the Disciplines – John Broughton: Inconvenient Feet: How Youth and Popular Culture Meet Resistance in Education – Annette Bickford: Popular Culture and the Politics of Revolutionary Education – Elizabeth Ellsworth: Mode of Address: It’s a Film Thing – Barry Bergdoll: Altered States of Vision: Film, Video, and the Teaching of Architectural History – Peter Lucas: Human Rights Films Seeding Peace Education: Case Study Brazil – Chyng Feng Sun: Always on Top of the Food Chain - «Circle of Life», The Lion King, and Hegemony – bell hooks/Kelvin Shawn Sealey: Afterword: On the Topic of Film and Education: A Conversation with bell hooks.