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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Jun
Pages: 5
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0896-5811
EISSN: EISSN-1744-1722
Available Date: 2025-07-30
Using Cinema to Foster Active Classroom Engagement
Lawrence J. Trautman1; Destynie Sewell2; Eric D. Yordy3; Larry D. Foster II1; Lora J. Koretz4; Brian Link5
Journal of Legal Studies Education, v42 n2 p105-109 2025
While textbooks may remain important tools for information delivery, how can educators find and present interesting and relevant content to eighteen to twenty-something-year-olds? If learning is to take place, capturing and maintaining student attention, interest, and active engagement is a primary challenge in the classroom. Given this reality, this teaching note presents a few cinema-based classroom strategies to improve student engagement.
Descriptors: Films, Teaching Methods, Learner Engagement, College Students, Student Interests, Active Learning
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1Business Law and Ethics, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas, USA; 2College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska–Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, USA; 3W.A. Franke College of Business, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA; 4Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA; 5Business Law, Seaver College, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, USA
