Educational Perspectives Journal of the College of Education/University of Hawai‘i at Ma¯noa CONTENTS Dean Christine Sorensen 2 Contributors Editor Hunter McEwan 3 Cinema, New Media, and Higher Education Managing Editor Lori Ward Guest Editor Konrad Ng Konrad Ng and Hunter McEwan Graphic Designer Darrell Asato 5 Film Form and Pedagogy: Beyond Perception College of Education Editorial Board Michael J. Shapiro Linda Johnsrud, Professor Kathryn Au, Professor Emeritus 10 Asian Cinema and the Social Imaginary Curtis Ho, Professor Wimal Dissanayake Mary Jo Noonan, Professor Robert Potter, Professor Emeritus 15 Apparatus, Genre, and Spectatorship in the Classroom COEDSA President Glenn Man The Journal and the College of Education assume no responsibility 24 Made in Hawai‘i: Critical Studies and the Academy for the opinion or facts in signed articles, except to the for Creative Media extent of expressing the view, by the fact of publication, that the subject matter is one which merits attention. Konrad Ng Published twice each year by the College of Education, 29 Engaging a “Truly Foreign” Language and Culture: University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa China through Chinese film Individual copies $25.00 To purchase single copies of this issue contact Cynthia Ning Marketing and Publication Services, Curriculum & Research Development Group 36 Thinking Images: Doing Philosophy in Film and Video Phone: 800-799-8111 (toll-free), 808-956-4969 Graham Parkes Fax: 808-956-6730 Email: [email protected] 47 Coffy, YouTube, and Uncle Ben: The Use of Film and New Address all communications regarding single copies, Media in the Teaching of African American Studies at subscriptions, manuscripts, and correspondence the University of Hawai‘i about editorial material to Editor, Elisa Joy White Educational Perspectives, College of Education, University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa, Wist Hall 54 Digital Storytelling in Teacher Education: Creating Room 113, 1776 University Avenue, Transformations through Narrative Honolulu, HI 96822 James R. Skouge and Kavita Rao Copyright 2009 by the College of Education, University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa 61 Finding a Voice This publication is available in microform from James R. Skouge and Brian Kajiyama Bell & Howell, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106 and in pdf format at www.hawaii.edu/edper/ International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) 0013-1849 Volume 42 Numbers 1 and 2 2009 Cover layout by Joy Hakoda Cover photo Students working on the set of “Li Hing Mui, Lilikoi, and Lychee”, a film directed by University of Hawai‘i student Lauren Cheape. “Li Hing Mui, Lilikoi, and Lychee” is the project of Assistant Professor Anne Misawa’s Fall 2008 ACM 410 Advanced Cinematic Production class and a co-production between film students from Shanghai University and the University of Hawai‘i’s Academy for Creative Media as part of the SMART (Student Media Art) Exchange program. 2 Educational Perspectives v Volume 42 v Numbers 1 and 2 Contributors Wimal Dissanayake is a professor in the Academy for Creative Michael J. Shapiro is a professor of political science at the Media at the University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa and the director of the University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa. Among his publications are International Cultural Studies Program at the East-West Center. He Deforming American Political Thought: Ethnicity, Facticity is the author and editor of a large number of books on cinema and and Genre (University Press of Kentucky, 2006), and Cinematic the founding editor of the East-West Film Journal. Geopolitics (Routledge, 2008). He is currently at work on a manuscript tentatively entitled The Time of the City: Politics, Brian Kajiyama is a PhD student in exceptionalities in the Philosophy, and Genre. Department of Special Education at the University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa. Among his many responsibilities, he promotes disability James R. Skouge is an associate professor in special education awareness through various media, including speaking engagements at the College of Education, University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa locally and nationally. specializing in assistive technology, media, and distance education. He has worked throughout the Hawaiian islands, American Samoa, Glenn Man is a professor of English at the University of Hawai‘i and Micronesia supporting persons with disabilities and their at Mänoa. He specializes in film studies and teaches a variety families in exploring assistive technologies for independence. of courses, including Film Genres, Fiction into Film, Narrative in Film and Literature, Film Theory and Criticism, and an Kavita Rao is an assistant professor in special education at introductory course in Film. His publications include American the College of Education, University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa. Her Film Renaissance, 1967–1976 (Greenwood, 1996), and articles on interests include assistive technology, distance learning in rural Thelma and Louise (1991) the Godfather films, Robert Altman, and indigenous settings, and the use of emerging technologies to the Hollywood South Seas film, films of the 1970s, cinematic address the needs of students receiving special education services adaptations of literary works, and the multi-narrative film and English language learners. Hunter McEwan is a professor of education in the Department Elisa Joy White is an assistant professor of Ethnic Studies at of Educational Foundations in the College of Education, the the University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa. She completed a PhD in the University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa where he teaches courses on African Diaspora Studies program at the University of California educational theory. He has served as editor of Educational at Berkeley, where she also received a MA in African American Perspectives since 1999. Studies. She also holds an MA in media studies from the New School University and a BA in theatre from Spelman College. Konrad Ng is an assistant professor in the Academy for Creative Dr. White’s publications include “The New Irish Storytelling: Media at the University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa where he teaches Media, Representations and Racialized Identities” in Racism courses in critical studies. He was the curator of film and video and Anti-Racism in Ireland, R. Lentin and R. McVeigh (eds), at the Honolulu Academy of Arts and a film programmer for the Belfast: Beyond the Pale Publications (2002); “Forging African Hawaii International Film Festival. Ng’s research focus is Asian Diaspora Spaces in Dublin’s Retro-Global Spaces: Minority cultural identity and cinema. Making in a New Global City” in City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, Vol. 6, No. 2: 251–270 (2002); Cynthia Ning is the associate director of the Center for Chinese and “Asserting Difference: An Examination of Modes in which Studies at at the University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa. Her research the Internet is used to Challenge Monolithic Blackness” in the interests include Chinese language pedagogy and materials AfroGeeks Anthology, Center for Black Studies, UC Santa Barbara development, Chinese comic literature, and Chinese film. She (2007). regularly conducts teacher-training sessions at the secondary and post-secondary levels on performance-based language testing and training, and gives a wide range of lectures on Chinese culture to both academic and non-academic audiences. Graham Parkes is professor of philosophy at University College Cork in the Republic of Ireland. He taught comparative philosophy for many years at the University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa. He is the author and translator of books on Heidegger and Nietzsche. In recent years, he has been presenting some of the results of his research in the medium of digital video. New Media in Higher Education 3 Cinema, New Media, and Higher Education Konrad Ng and Hunter McEwan In the late 1990s, the University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa With a majority of university classrooms now equipped began an ambitious project to install and upgrade the for film screenings, it is instructive to explore how film media equipment in over one hundred campus classrooms. and other visual media are being used in the university Over the following decade, computers, VHS VCRs, DVD curriculum. In this issue of Educational Perspectives we players, data projectors, screens, televisions, TV tuners, have invited a number of faculty from different disciplines and internet access became standard tools in University to write about how they are using new media technologies of Hawai‘i classrooms. This expansion of instructional in their classrooms. The resulting discussions offer some resources for higher education reflects how forms of media very imaginative uses of film and computer technology and like cinema have made new approaches to teaching possible. demonstrate how their use can enrich instruction and lead Indeed, the creative and critical use of film in the classroom students to a more profound understanding of representa- demonstrates that the medium can play an important role tion, education, culture, and difference. in university education and is not simply a form of mass In “Film Form and Pedagogy: Beyond Perception,” entertainment at odds with the pursuit of knowledge. The Michael Shapiro, in the Department of Political Science, ex- theme of this issue of Educational Perspectives is that film plores the pedagogical value of cinema’s capacity to offer a and other forms of media, particularly those made possible ‘decentered’ mode of perspective for the audience. Shapiro by digital technology, open up important areas of pedagogic illustrates a film’s ability to present a different perspective potential that supplement the traditional lecture format and with reference to Sean Penn’s The Pledge (2001) and Ivan seminar discussion. Sen’s Beneath Clouds (2002), which show how cinema The use of film and new media in the classroom allows viewers to recognize the implications of actions and invites students to explore questions, illustrate ideas, and states of affairs that are not captured by our subject-centered examine events that are not immediately represented in perceptions.
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