A very historical mode of understanding: examining editorial and ethnographic relations in The Primary (2008)
- Autores: Paul Warmington, Ian Grosvenor
- Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 47, Nº. 4, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Education in Motion: producing methodologies for researching documentary film on education), págs. 543-558
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This article offers an analysis of The Primary, a television documentary broadcast in the UK in 2008 as part of a BBC series exploring multicultural Britain. The film documents a term at an inner-city primary school. It depicts school leadership, cultural diversity, relationships between the school and the local community, pupils� friendships, parents and out of school activities. The article discusses The Primary as a product of British television documentary-making in the early twenty-first century and examines the historical context in which it was broadcast. It then analyses the relations between the film�s visual and aural narrative dimensions and the possible disruptions in historical meaning produced by these relations. Discussion focuses on the film�s shifts between �ethnographic� and �editorial� registers; its depiction of a multicultural urban school setting; and the possibilities offered by reading the film as cultural inventory
