Cinema en curs: Transmission of film as creation and creation as experience

This article – initially published in Spanish by Toma Uno in 2012 – explores the Catalonian project Cinema en curs, an annual, recurring and now international programme of film education that takes place with students aged 10–18 in schools and colleges. First detailing both the rationale and methodology motivating the project, the article goes on to discuss core aspects of the approach of Cinema en curs: the Lumière minutes exercise and the short films which serve as the culmination of students’ work on the project. In doing so, the article also explores the value of approaches to film education that help learners develop an appreciation of their own lived experiences and the places in which they live. A new introduction from the authors places the article’s discussion of Cinema en curs in a contemporary context

Short film production in educational contexts: exploring the methodology of the Olhar pela Lente project in Portugal

Cinema’s pedagogical essence nurtures a variety of educational strategies. Beyond serving as a support to other areas of knowledge or as the subject of artistic analysis, it also provides students with a means to give – freely and significantly – voice to their own concerns and interests. Short film production in schools can offer a process for young people to deal with personal and social challenges, fostering a closer connection between them and their community and environment. Schools are natural habitats for this encounter – a place where film production can generate significant educational and cultural resonance. This paper reflects on the didactic potential of short film production in schools – as a key to fulfil formal and non-formal pedagogical goals – through the presentation and analysis of a recently implemented methodology for education through film: Olhar pela Lente, a project developed in Portugal during 2018.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Physical parameters of IPHAS-selected classical Be stars. (I. Determination procedure and evaluation of the results.)

Reproduced with permission from Astronomy & Astrophysics, © 2016 ESOWe present a semi-automatic procedure to obtain fundamental physical parameters and distances of classical Be (CBe) stars, based on the Barbier-Chalonge-Divan (BCD) spectrophotometric system. Our aim is to apply this procedure to a large sample of CBe stars detected by the IPHAS photometric survey, to determine their fundamental physical parameters and to explore their suitability as galactic structure tracers. In this paper we describe the methodology used and the validation of the procedure by comparing our results with those obtained from different independent astrophysical techniques for subsamples of stars in common with other studies. We also present a test case study of the galactic structure in the direction of the Perseus Galactic Arm, in order to compare our results with others recently obtained with different techniques and the same sample of stars. We did not find any significant clustering of stars at the expected positions of the Perseus and Outer Galactic Arms, in agreement with previous studies in the same area that we used for verification.Peer reviewedFinal Published versio