Cinema and (social) education. Three pedagogic looks of the same movie. The film «Sleepers»

Abstract

Nowadays, at the universities, there is the idea that the academic practice is undergoing under a formal and in deep revolution that it forces to recreate the academic dynamics and practice introducing new heterogeneous elements or reintroducing some old ones. Another interesting way remarks the cultural values of different mass media, and this idea allows us to emphasize the potentialities and use of the cinema like a powerful educational instrument in the learning process of the students. We take many years incorporating movies in our educational work. Coherently with the contents that conforms the subjects that each one of us teach, we use movies as an analytical and documentary element for the pedagogical and social intervention. The cinematographic stories allow us to introduce educative and professional practices from case analysis, an instrument of work frequently used in the socioeducative scope. So, in this article we present three different visions about the same film, each one developed within the framework of different subjects of the studies of Pedagogy and Social education, and we do that working with the film Sleepers (Barry Levinson, 1996), trying to show the cross-sectional character of our proposal.