The first main area of my thesis, the origins and development of a film-based pedagogy or cinema-based education, is based on and supported by a number of papers and authors. The following is a list of those most immediate and influential, including my own work.
Apkon, S. (2013). The age of the image: redefining literacy in a world of screens. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Brown, T. (2011). Using film in teaching and learning about changing societies. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 30(2), 233-247.
Frankmore, D. A. (2011). On the edge of education and discipline: a survey of the pioneering classroom. Unpublished manuscript, College for Professional Studies, Regis University, Denver, CO.
Frankmore, D. A. (2013). Laying the foundation for cinema-based education. Unpublished manuscript. College for Professional Studies, Regis University, Denver, CO.
Johnson, W. G. (2008). "Making learning easy and enjoyable": Anna Verona Davis and the visual instruction movement, 1919- 1928. TechTrends, 52(4), 51-58.
Mackie, A. & Norton B. (2006). Revisiting Pearl Harbor: resistance to reel and real events in an English language classroom. Canadian Journal of Education, 29(1), 223-243.
Neuhaus, J. (2010). "Shake this square world and blast off for kicksville": teaching history with post-WWII prescriptive classroom films. The History Teacher, 44(1), 35-50.
Rosenstone, R. A. (2012). History on film/film on history (second edition). New York, NY: Pearson.
Saltmarsh, D. (2009). Movie lessons for new learning. Refereed paper presented a 'Teacher education crossing borders: cultures, contexts, communities, and curriculum' the annual conference of the Australian Teacher Education Association, Albury, 28 June - 1 July.
Sturma, M., & MacCallum, J. (2000). JFK in the classroom. Social Studies, 91(3), 101-109.
Weinstein, P. B. (2001). Movies as the gateway to history: the history and film project. The History Teacher, 35(1), 27-48.
The second main area of my thesis, which contains certain pedagogical ideas and themes that serve to direct and define the approach of Manitou Movie School, is shaped and guided by the following authors and works:
Block, P. (2009). Community: the structure of belonging. San Francisco, CA: Berret-Koehler Publishers.
Cassidy, M. (2004). Bookends: the changing media environment in American classrooms. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
Dunn, R., Denig, S., Lovelace, M. K. (2001). Multiple intelligences and learning styles: two sides of the same coin or different strokes for different folks? Teacher Librarian, 28(3), 9-15.
Hubbard, G. T. (2012). Discovering constructivism: how a project-oriented activity-based media production course effectively employed constructivist teaching principles. Journal of Media Literacy Education, 4(2) 159-166).
Isaacs, W. (1999). Dialogue and the art of thinking together: a pioneering approach to communicating in business and in life. New York, NY: Currency.
Manocha, R. (2011). Meditation, mindfulness, and mind-emptiness. Acta Neuropsychiatrics, 23(1), 46-47.
Nolan, J. L. (2003). Multiple intelligences in the classroom. Education, 124(1), 115-119.
Ochoa, G. L., & Pineda, D. (2008). Deconstructing power, privilege, and silence in the classroom. Radical History Review, Fall(102), 45-62.
Pegrum, M. (2008). Film, culture, and identity: critical intercultural literacies for the language classroom. Language and Intercultural Communication, 8(2), 136-154.
Valenzuela-Aguilera, A. (2008). Ivan Illich: true learning and the leisure pursuit of free people. Radical History Review, Fall (102),15-17.
Zajonc, A. (2006). Love and knowledge: recovering the heart of learning through contemplation. Teachers College Record, 108(9), 1742-1759.
The third main area of my Master's thesis proposes that cannabis helps us gain access to our traditionally neglected right-brain awareness, and may thus be a necessary medicine to get our species and culture back in balance both with itself and its environment. In addition to my own experience and work, the following sources are cited to support this "thesis of the garnish."
Berry, Thomas (1988). The Dream of the Earth. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books.
Ferguson, Marilyn (1980). The Aquarian conspiracy: personal and social transformation in our time. New York, NY: Penguin Group.
Grinspoon, Lester & Bakalar, James B. (1997). Marijuana: the forbidden medicine. New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press.
Grinspoon, Lester (2010). A cannabis odyssey. In D. Jacquette (Ed.) Cannabis philosophy for everyone: what were we just talking about?. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.
Grof, Stanislov (1988). The adventure of self-discovery: dimensions of consciousness and new perspectives in psychotherapy and inner exploration. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
McGilchrist, Iain (2009). The master and his emissary: the divided brain and the making of the Western world. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Ratsch, Christian (2001). Marijuana medicine: a world tour of the visionary and healing powers of cannabis. Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press.
Schiffer, Fredric (1998). Of two minds: the revolutionary science of dual-brain psychology. New York, NY: The Free Press.
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre (1959: Perennial Reprint 2002). The phenomenon of man. New York, NY: HarperCollins.
For those who would like a further look at my thesis, let me know here.
Cannabis as a Catalyst to Restore Balance
Cinema-Based Education
My Ideal School/Classroom
