EDUCATION THROUGH CINEMA: "BEATING HEARTS ON THE DESK

Eugenia Bazani

Abstract


In the context of the 5th Panhellenic Conference on "Educational play and art in education and culture", from the thematic section "Educational cultural programmes", I was given the opportunity to deal with the topic "Education through cinema: "Hits on the Desk" in terms of educational events. In the development of the film, I used the following themes: teaching and education, educational system, educational administration, evaluation, equipment, curriculum, behaviour-discipline, socio-political environment, family environment, profession and staff (the duration of each educational phenomenon). The film is set in the early 1960s and stars: A. Vougiouklaki, D. Papamichael, D. Konstantinaras, D. Papagiannopoulos, G. D. The music is by M. Hadjidakis and the script-direction: A. Sakellariou. Set in a wealthy area of Athens, Filothei, the film presents the carefree life, attitudes and reactions of the schoolgirls in a realistic mood. This era is a transitional period before the reform of G. Papandreou - E. Papanoutsou, where a period of intense political conflict with an impact on education begins. This period hides an "innocence" and carefreeness in student life. The film "Knocking at the Desk" is a continuation of the film "The Wood came out of Paradise" of the 1950s, where there are, we could say, small changes in the school process. At the same time, there is an improvement in certain aspects of educational reality. The film "Knocking on the Desk" is an emotional film that has also been shot in Turkish, has sold 591,675 tickets in Greece and was the second most popular film among the cinema audience in the period '63-'64.

 

Article visualizations:

Hit counter


Keywords


teaching, educational policy, evaluation, teaching, evaluation

Full Text:

PDF

References


Dimaras, K. Th. (1988). Synchronana Themata, vols. 35, 36, 37, Athens.

Kazamis, A. (1993). Comparative Pedagogy III, Theoretical, methodological problems and contemporary trends in international education, Athens.

Kazamis, A. & Kassotakis, M. (1982). Myths and realities, Educational Reforms in Greece, Proceedings of the Panhellenic Pedagogical Conference, Chania, Greece.

Bouzakis, S. (2002). Educational Reforms in Greece, Vol. B, Athens: Gutenberg.




DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.46827/ejes.v12i8.6102

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Copyright (c) 2025 Eugenia Bazani

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Copyright © 2015-2026. European Journal of Education Studies (ISSN 2501 - 1111) is a registered trademark of Open Access Publishing Group. All rights reserved.


This journal is a serial publication uniquely identified by an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) serial number certificate issued by Romanian National Library (Biblioteca Nationala a Romaniei). All the research works are uniquely identified by a CrossRef DOI digital object identifier supplied by indexing and repository platforms. All authors who send their manuscripts to this journal and whose articles are published on this journal retain full copyright of their articles. All the research works published on this journal are meeting the Open Access Publishing requirements and can be freely accessed, shared, modified, distributed and used in educational, commercial and non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).