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SUMMARY:Children as Observational Filmmakers Childhood and Modernity: Indi
 an Children’s Perspectives - Professor David MacDougall\, Australian Nat
 ional University
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:Observational filmmaking is a research methodology originating
  in social anthropology. It presents a challenge and an opportunity for ed
 ucation researchers who use video. This is an opportunity to hear one of t
 he world’s leading ethnographic filmmakers discuss his most recent resea
 rch project\, in which 10 and 11-year-old children shot observational film
  about their experiences.  \n\n_Childhood and Modernity: Indian Children
 ’s Perspectives_ is a five-year project conducted by David MacDougall th
 at encourages Indian children to explore their surroundings using video ca
 meras.  Unlike many video projects designed to address children’s proble
 ms\, the aim here is different: to see what children can teach us about th
 eir society from their unique position as children.  It has been inspired 
 by recent efforts in the social sciences to treat children not as objects 
 of research but as active collaborators and contributors to new knowledge\
 , often on subjects they know better than adults.  In discussing the proje
 ct\, MacDougall will present several short films made by eleven-year-old c
 hildren in Rajasthan\, New Delhi and Ladakh.  \nThe pedagogy MacDougall us
 es to introduce children to observational filmmaking practice\, together w
 ith his approach to collaborative participant research with children will 
 be of interest to all education researchers who use video cameras in a sch
 ool or family context. \n\n*The New Boys*: A screening of _The New Boys_\,
  the fourth in MacDougall’s ground breaking Doon School film series will
  follow for all at *Babbage Theatre in the new David Attenborough Building
 \, New Museums Site\, Cambridge starting at 2.15pm*.  MacDougall comments\
 , “An important feature of the film are the conversations among the boys
  about the causes of aggression and warfare\, homesickness\, restaurant fo
 od\, and how to speak to a ghost”.\n\nAll welcome!
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DMB
 \, Room GS5
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