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Record W2020321939 · doi:10.1080/15505170.2014.966930

Cinema and Pedagogy: An Urban Education Seminar

2014· article· en· W2020321939 on OpenAlex
Karen Meyer, Al-Munir Vellani

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Curriculum and Pedagogy · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicItalian Literature and Culture
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMovie theaterNothingnobodySociologySpellArt historyMedia studiesArtAestheticsPhilosophy

Abstract

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Alfredo: Living here day by day, you think it's the center of the world. You believe nothing will ever change. Then you leave: a year, two years. When you come back, everything's changed, the threads broken. What you came to find isn't there. What was yours is gone. You have to go away for a long time … many years … before you can come back and find your people—the land where you were born. But now, no. It's not possible. Right now you’re blinder than I am.Salvatore: Who said that? Gary Cooper? James Stewart? Henry Fonda? Eh?Alfredo: No, Toto. Nobody said it. This time it's all me. Life isn't like in the movies. Life … is much harder.In Cinema Paradiso (Tomatore, 1988), Salvatore's love of movies came from spending his earlier, young life inside a cinema with the fatherly projectionist Alfredo, now blind and bitter. Alfredo is right. Life is much harder, yes, yet still very much “like in the movies” filled with frustrated actions, performed inside blind and repetitive constellations of every-day-ness and non-stop antinomies. Cinema Paradiso, among other cinematic gems, is curriculum to a seminar in Urban Education that probes, tussles, even attempts to seduce the grand problem of education, as posed by Hannah Arendt: “[F]or the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must … preserve this newness and introduce it as a new thing into an old world” (1968, p. 193). In this essay the authors, characters themselves and co-instructors, tell the story of this seminar and its pedagogy. In the telling, each plays a different role—Meyer recounts the narrative in seven scenes, Vellani weaves in five Counterpoint Moments of its hermeneutics, set up as notes between the scenes. The narrative feature, Matinee Dreams, unfolds an argument in prose, of lived curricular and cinematic moments with teachers from urban contexts—graduate students, at times a weeping audience, and co-authors in children's lives. In front of the screen in a makeshift cinema, all are beholden to the Arendtian question of pedagogy: What does it mean to be a teacher amid the onslaught of newcomers and the unpredictable plurality, in a world, old and weary?

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.665
Threshold uncertainty score0.372

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.278
Teacher spread0.269 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it