Vernacular cinema, self-concept and the perceptual–conceptual shift: exploring conversations between film education and developmental psychology

Chambers, Jamie; Munro, Robert; Ross, Josephine; Wimmer, Marina

Abstract

Co-authored by film education practitioners and developmental psychologists, this article seeks to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue between the emergent discourses of film education and developmental psychology. In particular, it explores the possible implications for our understandings of film education of recent psychological research into: (1) the cognitive and social consequences for young people of developing a sense of self; and (2) understandings of children’s development of visual cognition. Seeking areas of commonality and mutual resonance between different disciplinary vocabularies and methodologies, ultimately we present a series of proposals for how film education may benefit from further interface with developmental psychology.

Citation

Chambers, J., Munro, R., Ross, J., & Wimmer, M. (2023). Vernacular cinema, self-concept and the perceptual–conceptual shift: exploring conversations between film education and developmental psychology. Film Education Journal, 6(2), 82-100. https://doi.org/10.14324/fej.06.2.02

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 23, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Dec 12, 2023
• Publication Date: 2023
• Deposit Date: Jan 12, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 12, 2024
• Journal: Film Education Journal
• Print ISSN: 2515-7086
• Electronic ISSN: 2515-7086
• Publisher: UCL Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 82-100
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/fej.06.2.02
• Keywords: film education, cognitivism, vernacular cinema, self-efficacy, developmental psychology
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3423468