The document summarizes a seminar on researching film education in Europe. The seminar aims to shape a research agenda for film education by discussing what is already known, identifying new questions, and hearing perspectives from ongoing research. Participants will compare views and work to articulate an agenda, with the goal of better understanding the current state of film education across different settings and countries in Europe.
2. Why are we here?
To begin to shape a research agenda for Film Education in Europe:
•What do we need to know?
•How can we find out, together?
•What’s the current landscape? What do we know already? What else should
we be finding out?
•How do we situate film education in a) media education b) wider curriculum
settings c) wider non-formal settings?
NB, the EC definition of film literacy:
the level of understanding of a film, the ability to be
conscious and curious in the choice of films; the
competence to critically watch a film and to analyse its
content, cinematography and technical aspects; and the
ability to manipulate its language and technical
resources in creative moving image production’
3. What are we going to do?
Hear perspectives from research already carried out, or just
underway
Compare those perspectives with our own
Articulate the new questions we need to ask
When the outcome of an issue is
unclear, or cannot be resolved, it is
important to learn to love the question
Rilke, Advice to a Young Poet
26. Screening Literacy:
a survey of European Film Education
Mark Reid
Head of Education, BFI
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27. Screening Literacy: Main
Findings
aims and purposes of film education
strategies in place; types of provision
in the classroom, after school, outside school
funded, assessed
providers and recipients
Why?
What?
Where?
How?
Who?
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28. A strong model of film education
What would it look like, for you?
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29. Strong Models of Film
Education
• A high degree of co-ordination across sectors supported by a
national strategic plan
• Entitlement on behalf of all people to become ‘literate’ in
the moving image (watching, understanding, making)
• Being part of a wider national culture in film
• Informal valued as highly as formal education
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30. Strong Models of Film Education 2
• Robust and independent evaluation
• High levels of participation, sustained across a period of time,
with measured and recorded outcomes
• Funding across public, commercial, education and cultural
sectors
• Accredited and funded professional development opportunities
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31. Publications
• Report publication: www.bfi.org.uk/screeningliteracy
• Film Literacy Advisory Group:
http://filmliteracyadvisorygroup.wordpress.com/
• Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy 04-2012, VOL. 7 Andrew Burn
and Mark Reid
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33. Discussion questions ♯1
What are your own agencies’ approach to
identifying impact, reach, rates of
participation, and value for money of film
education?
What have you heard that you might learn
from or use?
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34. Discussion questions ♯2
What do you think are the key
research questions in film education?
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Notes de l'éditeur
Calling ‘action!’ in Poland
It’s learning at the Cinema - in Austria, at the FilmMuseum
Czech Rep
It’s asking questions in Lithuania
In Germany, Schools Film Week
The very young, in Holland
And their grandparents.. Or great grandparents
Sound recording, Greece
Knife wielding children in Denmark, at StationNext
Being a pirate in Belfast
Film represents the world, whatever is in it; it creates new worlds. Why not geese in Hungary?
You have the whole world to shoot in Barcelona; or you can turn your back on it
It’s on the street, in Rome
And it’s looking back at the past (IN LITHUANIA)
Os filhos do lumiere
Playing the soundtrack in Llubjiana
It’s a serious business in Sweden
And especially in France..
But it’s not always serious…
It’s the young film-maker looking back at you
Thank you for inviting me to speak here today; I would like to share with you some of the outcomes from a research project funded by the European Commission, to survey film education programmes across 32 European countries. It’s the first time this has been done in a generation, so we welcome the chance to add to intelligence in this area. I’ll present this in two media: in words, in a moment, but first, in pictures.
After surveying 30 countries, we made some judgements on the support and the features which characterise strong national models of film education provision. Each of these features is more often than not absent in Europe. No country has it all, though Norway, Denmark, Croatia, NI, France, have national strategies jointly owned by Ministries of Culture and Education. In other countries there are high levels of co-ordination, and some film institutes have published their own national strategies.
After surveying 30 countries, we made some judgements on the support and the features which characterise strong national models of film education provision