Article ID: CBB761957343

How Films Entered the Classroom: The Sciences and the Emotional Education of Youth through Health Education Films in the United States and Germany, 1910–30 (2016)

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This essay focuses on health education films in Germany and the United States in the first decades of the twentieth century, illustrating how these films developed their potential as a teaching tool capable of shaping the emotions and changing the behavior of audiences. The essay argues that the films’ educational goals were inspired by certain contemporary ideas on the relation between perception, cognition, and emotions. In concentrating on youth as a target audience, it traces the way in which the sciences of psychology and pedagogy discovered the significance of emotions to this specific age group’s learning process. The essay discusses the deployment of both general and specially created films in the classroom as a new educational practice, arguing that these films can be read as a negotiation of the modern human subject and its emotions.

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Article Otniel E. Dror; Bettina Hitzer; Anja Laukötter; Pilar León-Sanz (2016) An Introduction to History of Science and the Emotions. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 1-18). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Malin, Brenton J.
Beauvais, Clementine
Roberts, Jessica
Navon, Joshua
Newman, Laura
Frisch, Walter M.
Concepts
Psychology
Education
Teaching; pedagogy
Emotions; passions
Motion pictures; cinema; movies
Health promotion
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
20th century
Places
United States
Germany
Great Britain
Americas
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