talk to film educators in Stockholm August 2018

1. MODELLING FILM EDUCATION
Mark Reid, BFI
Stockholm
29th August 2018

2. UK CONTEXT
ENGLAND SCOTLAND NORTHERN IRELAND
• Post-14 film and media
(8% of cohort)
• No moving image in
mandatory curriculum
since 2013
• Some film in language
teaching
WALES…
.. Revising its curriculum
• Moving image in
definition of literacy
• "... the set of skills which
allows an individual to
engage fully in society and
in learning, through the
different forms of language,
and the range of texts,
which society values and
finds useful."
• Moving image embedded
in ICT, literacy, History
• Dedicated creative Moving
Image Arts qual for 14-19
• Extensive support
structures – Creative
Learning Centres, websites
• Inspected formally by govt
inspection agency
• Investment in cultural
education post ‘Troubles’.

3. HOW DOES BFI WORK IN THIS CONTEXT?
(UK-wide, all curricula, after- as well as outside- school)
Into Film
Lottery funded
£4.25m pa – 2022
Emphasis on after school film
clubs
Some teaching guides (‘learning
through film’)
Some CPD, MOOCs
BFI Film Academy
Entry-level industry skills
training
16-19 year olds, outside school
1000 places a year
Residential courses NFTS &
others
47 centres across UK
BFI Southbank
Cinema-based study days
15,000 students a year
Film and Media Studies
Modern Foreign Languages
Research and Curriculum
development

4. MODELS OF FILM EDUCATION
Film as part of core literacy
Film as ‘curriculum integrator’
Film education as vocational skill – for
screen industries and beyond
Film as media literacy: wider
education in the image
Film as creative and expressive
learning
Film as part of civic education –
education in citizenship, tolerance,
diversity
Film and heritage – national,
European - and as audience
development – to support cinema
going
Film in its own right – as the richest,
most expressive and complex artform
human beings have ever invented
After Eisner, 2002

5. FILM EDUCATION IN ITS OWN RIGHT?
Unfortunately.. No
curriculum in Europe
requires the study of
film for its own sake,
for all children, at
every age..
https://www.bfi.org.uk/s
creening-literacy-film-
education-europe

6. FILM AND LITERACY
REFRAMING LITERACY BRADFORD MEDIA LITERACY
Since 2013
20 primary schools per year
Focus on film to support
writing and reading
www.primaryfilmliteracy.com
• Focus on ‘instrumental
impact’ on literacy: better
reading and writing
• film language not
compatible with written
language
• Film not treated as art-
form in its own right
• Examples usually
Hollywood/ Disney, not
global cinema
2004-2009
Short films
2000 teachers
8 DVDs
LIMITATIONS
80+ local municipalities
(50% of English schools)

7. FILM ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
Moving Images in the Classroom Film and Modern Languages

8. FILM, ART AND COGNITION
Elliot Eisner, Arts and the Creation of Mind, 2002
The arts enable specific, unique types of thinking:
Flexible purposing
Judgement without rules
Using material as medium
Seeing the world aesthetically
Exercising the imagination
Visualising concepts

9. from le Cinema cent ans de jeunesse
Shot no.. 5, 4 mins 14
https://youtu.be/Ee4SfQNWNpE?t=4m15s

10. QUESTIONS ABOUT COGNITION
How are the affordances of film being used? (material as medium)
How is the world being framed aesthetically?
Which concept or concepts are being represented?

11. Thank you!