Perceptions and experiences of female School Social Workers on the use of Cinema as an intervention tool in education

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Published: Dec 29, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/socialwork-rss.36379
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Cinema School Social Work Art in School Social Work Cinema in School Social Work
Sofia Nikolaidou
https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8478-0912
Abstract

This article is based on a research which examines the perceptions and experiences of school social workers about the use of the cinema as a tool of action in the school's social work, with the aim of bringing out the benefits and the obstacles of its use. It was chosen a qualitative methodology, for the collection and analysis of the current research, where the production of data was accomplished through twelve semi- structured interviews on women social workers who have experience in greek public schools from ten months to seven years. The interviews were conducted online and in two months time, November to December 2021. The analysis of data was done through thematic analysis, where all the benefits were pointed out, not only for the participants of the intervention who learned to express their feelings, raise empathy and social skills, have a positive attitude on changes, enhance mental resilience etc, but also for the school social workers themselves, who learned to facilitate the assessment, individualize and evaluate the incidents, show professional growth etc. Through this analysis, a lot of difficulties were arisen, like the minimum available time for this action related to the time which is required for the use of films or videos, the lack of money and support on the educational domain, the obstacles of applying this action etc. Furthermore, it was emerged that the cinema, as a tool of action, can be used in group, individual and specific range ones, and also, a lot of points were featured which need attention at its use. Finally, through the findings of the current research, the cinema was pointed out as a particular useful addition to the actions of school social work.

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