Help me to see. Reflections on the teaching of audiovisual language in middle school

Abstract

Thinking on the link between school and audiovisual language forces us to debate several issues that refer to a relationship that is formalized through an education policy which grants it curriculum status, even if it starts a few years before. Is it worth thinking why schools undertake the teaching of audiovisual language since 1990? What are the contextual changes that support this cultural recognition? Furthermore, once the conceptual content has been formalized in the program, which are the links a teacher builds between school grammar and audiovisual language? This article seeks to problematise teaching positions that take school teachers to teach audiovisual language and how their teaching practices bring into play two educational devices: film and television on the one hand and school, on the other. Which aspects of this relationship are naturalized and which are more complex to include?