Teaching with Movies : Recreation, Sports, Tourism, and Physical Education

by O'Bannon, Teresa

• ISBN13: 9780736065085
• ISBN10: 0736065083
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-08-20
• Publisher: Human Kinetics

Summary

Teaching With Movies: Recreation, Sports, Tourism, and Physical Educationshows you how to use 77 popular culture and documentary films as effective teaching tools in recreation, leisure, tourism, sport management, and physical education courses.Through this all-in-one resource, you will learn how to use films to help students retain important course concepts and how this medium can support learning on a particular topic or extend or reemphasize classroom learning.The authors explain how to use films for students with any learning style, and they include these features:- 19 core concepts, such as environmental issues, leadership, diversity, and commercial recreation, so you can easily find movies that reinforce specific themes- Guidance in preparing for, teaching, and evaluating movies in your classroom- A strong foundation for justifying the use of movies as educational tools- Tools for effectively teaching each movie, including framing methods, discussion questions, and debriefing activities for further exploration of recreation-related conceptsTeaching With Moviessupplies you with a clear, simple template covering the important information for each movie at a glance, and it includes easy-to-implement guides for each film. A movie finder, which lists all the films in the book and shows which themes are covered by each film, will help you consider what movies are relevant to your class and the topics you are teaching. Movies are categorized by topic into recreation, leisure, tourism, sport management, and physical education curricula. In addition, for each film the authors provide guidance on framing the movie for your students, discussion and reflection questions, other learning activities, and evaluation tools for the experience.For the bulk of the movies included in this guide, recreation instructors who have used the films in their classes were surveyed about each movie's topics and relevance to courses, its important scenes, and its relationship to recreation, leisure, tourism, sport management undergraduate and graduate courses, and high school and university physical education courses. All of the movies featured in this book can be found at most neighborhood video rental stores or in your university library.Teaching With Movieswill help you engage students, vary your teaching methods, and teach important conceptsthrough movies!

Author Biography

Marni Goldenberg is an assistant professor in the recreation, parks, and tourism administration program at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.

Table of Contents

Movie Finder

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Movies as Teaching Tools

Now Playing

13 Going on 30

50 First Dates

About Schmidt

Ali

Awakenings

Bad News Bears

The Beach

The Bend It Like Beckham

Big

Billy Elliot

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

Born Into Brothels

Breaking Away

Cars

Coach Carter

Cocoon

Cutting Edge

The Day After Tomorrow

The Dirty Dancing

Dream Team

The Eight Below

Endurance

The: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

Failure to Launch

Fever Pitch

For Love of the Game

Four Minutes

Friday Night Lights

Gentleman's Game

A Gladiator

Glory Road

Gods Must Be Crazy

The Greatest Game Ever Played

The Hook

Hoot

Hotel Rwanda

Hudsucker Proxy

The Hurricane

The Ice Castles

Inconvenient Truth

An Invincible

K2

Keep Your Eyes Open

League of Their Own

A Lorax

The Mad Hot Ballroom

Milagro Beanfield War

The Million Dollar Baby

Miracle

Motorcycle Diaries

The Moulin Rouge

Mr. Miami Beach: The Remarkable Story of Carl Fisher

Murderball

My Left Foot

Mystery

Alaska

Patch Adams

Project Grizzly

Radio

Remember the Titans

Ringer

The River Runs Through It

A Rize

Roger & Me Rookie

The Saint Ralph

Sandlot

The Save the Last Dance

Seabiscuit

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Shall We Dance?

Shot at Glory

A Steel Magnolias

Super Size Me

Take the Lead

Touching the Void

Trekkies

We Are Marshall

Young and the Dead

The Conclusion: That's a Wrap!

References

About the Authors

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