Learning on ScreenThe Film Space
We believe that as well as developing children and young people’s experience of and engagement with film, we will also be developing a greater cultural appreciation of the medium amongst core audiences including teachers, youth workers, practitioners and parents, expanding their tastes in and understanding of film and showcasing the possibilities film offers for both learning and cultural enrichment throughout life.
We believe that the way forward in developing the scheme is through dialogue and partnership and we are already working with a number of organisations and universities to help establish meaningful programmes of resource supported activities, which will start to embed the study of film within and across the curriculum. Again, we stress the study of film.
In order to create an environment for film in schools, we believe that we need to:
- Promote innovative thinking about how best to engage children and young people in learning about film.
- Working with others, develop film specific aims, objectives and learning outcomes.
- Explore curriculum issues regarding the introduction of the study of film as a learning and cultural experience of value in its own right as well as contributing to the study and understanding within other curriculum subjects – History, English, Modern Foreign Languages, Literacy.
- Research, develop and promote teaching resources and other support to the strength and spread of film education in the UK.
- Expand and enrich the ways in which children and young people are exposed to a wider film culture.
If watching films is a central activity of the scheme then learning about film and using film to support learning and attainment will be a key factor in enabling children and young people to extend their viewing choices, to experiment and take risks and to become part of a film community.
So, with the advent of the new academic year we have quite a task before us. We hope that some of you will be willing to join us in developing this programme. Please do not hesitate to get in touch!
Ian Wall
