title: Getting to know you: using documentary video-making to challenge ageist stereotypes.
abstract: The article theorizes that augmenting traditional humanities course work with documentary video-making can enhance and motivate learning. The English class profiled focused on aging and the lives of elders in an adult daycare center and a retirement community. Students documented elders' stories in video over 15 weeks. The instructor's goal was to use the immediacy of video to challenge and dismantle ageist stereotypes. Documentary video-making is a simple, and enticing, technology that gives students a powerful tool for getting to know elders. Scholarship on classroom uses of digital video-making is discussed, and critical comments from the five reflective essays students wrote during the semester are used to track changes in student perceptions of elders.
authors: Department of English, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia 23606, USA. tlee@cnu.edu
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authors: Lee
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D063506:Ageism / Q000523:psychology*; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D003479:Curriculum; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D033062:Friends; D005853:Geriatrics / Q000193:education; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006809:Humanities; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013240:Stereotyping; D013334:Students; D013663:Teaching; D014481:United States; D014741:Video Recording; D055815:Young Adult