Nurturing youth film literacy
Post-qualitative arts-based inquiry into critical self-awareness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2640110 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wendy Smidt (0009-0002-7972-3270, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, corresponding author), Zayd Waghid (0000-0002-3404-1041, Cape Peninsula University of Technology) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1817-4434 • E-ISSN: 2415-2005 |
| Publisher | AOSIS (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.4102/td.v20i1.1382 |
| OpenAlex | W4391389874 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 38 |
Post-digital, as a timeframe set, raises specific concerns for young adults engaged in artistic and cultural activities, seeking to establish a sustainable livelihood within a semi-rural South African context. They grapple with issues such as determining their positionality within a world marked by fading boundaries between the physical and digital. To better understand the post-digital impact on experiential learning opportunities for young adults, the authors explored the specific ways and extent to which active engagement in shortfilm-making contributes to developing critical self-awareness among the participating post-school youth. An assemblage of transformative theories and concepts, rather than pre-determined methodologies, guided this inquiry that extended beyond the development of career and workplace competencies. The strengths of spaciousness and in-between boundary positions provided by the spider’s thread metaphor served as a useful methodological tool. Moving beyond the limitations of traditional discourse and content analysis, multimodal discourse analysis in combination with a modified, six-category measuring instrument was used to explore (analyse) the evidence (data) created as products of active participant engagement in a shortfilm-making project, over a 10-month period in 2020. Findings revealed that, for the participants, it was by moving from physical self-centred understandings of reality to experiential creations of authentic reality (shortfilm-productions) and involving an expanded awareness of those alternative possibilities that nurtured their potential transpersonal growth. Transdisciplinary Contribution: A synthesis of arts-based, post-qualitative and developmental phenomenographic approaches was employed to create, explore and communicate evidence in ways that present a holistic picture of alternative pathways to knowledge production
Art · Engineering ethics · Literacy · Pedagogy · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Art Education and Development · Diverse Music Education Insights · Engineering · Literacy, Media, and Education · Psychology
The Spider's Thread
Communities of Practice
Arts-based Methods in Socially Engaged Research Practice
Postdigital Learning for a Changing Higher Education
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
A four‐category scheme for coding and assessing the level of reflection in written work
Boundary-Crossing Competence
A change of view
Figured Worlds and Education
Postdigital science and education
Inhuman forms of life
Cultivating social entrepreneurial capacities in students through film
Transformative praxis through critical consciousness
Boundary Crossing and Boundary Objects
Researcher as Artist/Artist as Researcher
Post Qualitative Inquiry in an Ontology of Immanence
Post-Qualitative Filmic Research in Education
Boundary Objects, Social Meanings and the Success of New Technologies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |