‘It’s not what it looks like. I’m Santa’: connecting community through film
The lived experiences of young people are becoming increasingly marginalised within the narrowly defined curricula of neoliberal contexts. Many young people are also cast within the media according to deficit discourses of youth, which contributes to the fragmentation of communities and the limitati...
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| description | The lived experiences of young people are becoming increasingly marginalised within the narrowly defined curricula of neoliberal contexts. Many young people are also cast within the media according to deficit discourses of youth, which contributes to the fragmentation of communities and the limitation of interaction between generations. This article describes a film project in which young people living in an ex-mining community in the Midlands of England worked in and with their community to create a representation of where they live. As part of the process, the young filmmakers did more than connect to other people’s memories as repositories of information; both as process and as product, their film can be seen to connect shared narratives of people and place, across time and space. We argue that this project offers a timely opportunity to reflect upon the ways in which we understand learning in and out of English classrooms. |
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| spelling | nottingham-320162020-05-04T20:16:58Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32016/ ‘It’s not what it looks like. I’m Santa’: connecting community through film Jones, Susan McIntyre, Joanna The lived experiences of young people are becoming increasingly marginalised within the narrowly defined curricula of neoliberal contexts. Many young people are also cast within the media according to deficit discourses of youth, which contributes to the fragmentation of communities and the limitation of interaction between generations. This article describes a film project in which young people living in an ex-mining community in the Midlands of England worked in and with their community to create a representation of where they live. As part of the process, the young filmmakers did more than connect to other people’s memories as repositories of information; both as process and as product, their film can be seen to connect shared narratives of people and place, across time and space. We argue that this project offers a timely opportunity to reflect upon the ways in which we understand learning in and out of English classrooms. Taylor & Francis 2014 Article PeerReviewed Jones, Susan and McIntyre, Joanna (2014) ‘It’s not what it looks like. I’m Santa’: connecting community through film. Changing English, 21 (4). pp. 322-333. ISSN 1469-3585 Community Place Intergenerational Youth Film Media http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1358684X.2014.968348 doi:10.1080/1358684X.2014.968348 doi:10.1080/1358684X.2014.968348 |
| spellingShingle | Community Place Intergenerational Youth Film Media Jones, Susan McIntyre, Joanna ‘It’s not what it looks like. I’m Santa’: connecting community through film |
| title | ‘It’s not what it looks like. I’m Santa’: connecting community through film |
| title_full | ‘It’s not what it looks like. I’m Santa’: connecting community through film |
| title_fullStr | ‘It’s not what it looks like. I’m Santa’: connecting community through film |
| title_full_unstemmed | ‘It’s not what it looks like. I’m Santa’: connecting community through film |
| title_short | ‘It’s not what it looks like. I’m Santa’: connecting community through film |
| title_sort | ‘it’s not what it looks like. i’m santa’: connecting community through film |
| topic | Community Place Intergenerational Youth Film Media |
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