Cinema as a Transmitter of Content: Perceptions of Future Spanish Teachers for Motivating Learning

Alejandro Lorenzo-Lledó,Gonzalo Lorenzo,Asunción Lledó

doi:10.3390/su12145505

Abstract

In recent decades, the diverse changes produced have accelerated the relationships regulated by media. Cinema was able to bring together moving image and sound for the first time, and as a result of its audiovisual nature, it is a particularly suitable resource for motivation in education. In this light, the teacher’s perception for its application in its initial formal stage is highly relevant. The main objective of our research, therefore, has been to analyze the perceptions of cinema as a didactic resource for the transmission of content in preschool and primary education by students who are studying to become teachers themselves. The sample was composed of 4659 students from Spanish universities, both public and private. In addition to this, the PECID questionnaire was elaborated ad hoc and a comparative ex post facto design was adopted. The result showed that over 87% of students recognized the diverse educational potentialities of cinema, with motivation being an important factor. Furthermore, significant differences were found in perceptions according to different factors such as the type of teacher training degree, the Autonomous Community in which the student studied, as well as film consumption habits. On the basis of these results, future application of cinema needs to be applied using the different potentialities detected in our study.

Highlights

The changes that have taken place in recent decades have accelerated relations based on and regulated by media
On the basis of the above, the general objective of this study is to examine the perceptions of students in a Teacher Training Degree program in Spanish universities regarding cinema as a teaching resource for the transmission of content in preschool and primary education
The aim of this research was to examine the perceptions of students in a Teacher Training Degree program in Spanish universities about the potential of cinema as a didactic resource for the transmission of content

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Introduction

The changes that have taken place in recent decades have accelerated relations based on and regulated by media. [1] indicated that the media influenced all areas, including the family, which was affected by the use of media on a daily basis, especially by minors This reality has caused various authors to promote media education at schools [2,3,4,5], because despite the prevalence of screens in everyday life, school, as noted by [6], is somewhat unsynchronized with the world around it. Different meanings for cinema have been established by [10] such as a vehicle to construct the past, as a factory of dreams, and as an expression of the art of storytelling Ref. [11] emphasized the nature of cinema for the construction and preservation of identities, conceived as representations and categorizations of the world

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