The paper reflects on the use of short videos for teaching modules on nationalistic movements. It illustrates the author’s experience in introducing a seminar class on Arab nationalism with a subtitled operetta from the Nasserian period, explains the rationale of the activities that accompanied the projection and discusses the suggestions that emerged from a self-assessment questionnaire. This experience confirmed the intuition that video material can help students develop a deeper understanding of nationalism and of its emotional appeal, but also suggests that short videos might not allow the teacher to achieve a broad variety of learning outcomes and that their projection should ideally be accompanied by short and sharp activities.
Nasser and YouTube: Teaching Arab Nationalism Using Short Clips
Pinfari, Marco
2014-01-01
Abstract
The paper reflects on the use of short videos for teaching modules on nationalistic movements. It illustrates the author’s experience in introducing a seminar class on Arab nationalism with a subtitled operetta from the Nasserian period, explains the rationale of the activities that accompanied the projection and discusses the suggestions that emerged from a self-assessment questionnaire. This experience confirmed the intuition that video material can help students develop a deeper understanding of nationalism and of its emotional appeal, but also suggests that short videos might not allow the teacher to achieve a broad variety of learning outcomes and that their projection should ideally be accompanied by short and sharp activities.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
