| Faculty image | Faculty Name | Department | University/college |
|---|---|---|---|
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Tunde Szecsi, Ph.D. | Teaching and Learning Sciences |
Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) College of Education |
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Massimo Meccarelli, Ph.D. | Department of Law | University of Macerata (UniMC) |
TITLE: Cross-reading through Cinema in a Transdisciplinary COIL Project: Education and Legal Studies
This transdisciplinary COIL project allows students to deepen their understanding of issues related to responsibility in society in times of war and during its aftermath. In this project, each student selects a topic related to the movie titled “The teacher who promised the sea”. This film takes places in Spain in two temporal layers spanning the present (the implementation of the memory law and the exhumation of mass graves in the early 21st century) and the past (the outbreak of the civil war in the 20th century). The students analyze the political, social, and existential situations as portrayed in the movie, using a transdisciplinary comparative approach; moreover, they expand the selected topics about education or legal studies using proper literature/resources.
Students develop a Podcast on the selected topic and in cross-cultural team discussions, offer a transdisciplinary interpretation of the selected topics.
Resulting Scholarship:
Students are in the process of developing a manuscript for publication.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Exploring the role of institutions and pedagogical methods in a given era
- Understanding social relationships and individual responsibility in a specific historical time
- Understanding the relevance of politics of memory and reparation in the aftermath of a certain era
- Exploring approaches and legal responses that society and the state can take for the victims
- Implementing interdisciplinary comparative analysis skills
- Strengthening professional collaboration skills across cultures
- Improving language skills: (English, and Spanish)
Using technology for knowledge production and distribution
Participating Countries: USA and Italy
Number of FGCU and Partner Institution Student Participants:
FGCU: 2 Ed.D. students
UniMC: 2 Ph.D. students
Discipline:
FGCU: Education-Higher education and Multilingualism
UniMC: Law - Legal history
FGCU Course Code & Name: EDF 7883 Comparative Research
Project Duration: 12 weeks
