Watching movies at school is a matter of reflection or reflexivity?

Abstract

As a teacher of Early Childhood Education, I am particularly interested in analyzing the use that is being made of cinema in today's schools, because due to my experience I think that it is not given all the importance it has to obtain more profitable results with the students. In most of the schools, the cinema is used to promote a state of reflection in the students about a topic and in some occasions, especially in Infant Education, as hobbies. However, before this fact I have some doubts: ¿does the cinema always produce reflection? Is there a difference between what are called reflection and reflexivity? When would each of these processes be produced using cinema as an artistic medium? From this arose my need to be part of an investigation, of which my proposal has been to make an artistic practice in a school center using the cinema in such a way that it is not limited to the viewing of a film, but to the creation of one, and determine what cognitive processes take place in the student body. However, this article is going to focus on a first stage of this research, where I proceeded to collect information about what kind of knowledge and learning is obtained in school after the viewing of a film.