Thinking About Film
Are you looking for a powerful learning tool to help develop thinking skills that stick? This series draws on the medium of film as a highly effective means to do this. It introduces students to the philosophical ideas and thinkers behind a selection of modern and much-loved films. Each film is dealt with as a separate unit while also allowing for comparative study. There is a wide range of activities and worksheets for previewing, viewing and postviewing a film.
Ages: 11-15 years
About the Author
Yvette Krohn
Yvette Krohn has taught English for the past 18 years, first in South Africa and later in New Zealand, where her main role has been teaching high-level thinking courses, including gifted and talented education, extension and scholarship classes. She has been a faculty head of languages and an assistant principal, as well as a lecturer of communications and learning styles at Lincoln University. Passionate about thinking skills, Yvette has a particular interest in incorporating philosophy, psychology and social theory into the English curriculum, primarily through the medium of film.