FEATURE: CULTURAL EDUCATION
The importance of film in the cultural education mix
educational, cultural and personal development. It is founded on a passionate belief in the transformational power, the civilising effect and the motivational force that film can bring to the lives of all children and young people. Into Film’s offer is broad and encourages young people to connect with film both inside and outside the classroom, and is of fundamental importance and benefit within both environments. Over half of UK schools engage with our
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n our third piece this month on cultural education, we’re delighted to hear from
Paul Reeve, CEO of education charity Into Film, who examines the important role film plays in cultural education.
Into Film is an education charity that puts film at the heart of children and young people’s
programme of Into Film Clubs, special cinema screenings, and resources and training to support classroom teaching. Into Film has a UK-wide remit to work with teachers across the curriculum, inspiring their use of film for educational purposes. In the past year, Into Film has trained 5,122 educators, and 104,695 Into Film teaching and learning resources have been downloaded for use with young people aged 5-19 in 29 different curricular subjects. Meanwhile, there are currently 7,925 Into Film Clubs (6,116 England, 839 Scotland, 544 Wales and 426 in Northern Ireland). Into Film runs two flagship annual events. The
Into Film Festival enables over 500,000 children and young people to access the cinema for free, as part of almost 3000 screenings and events across the UK. Our Into Film Awards celebrate the filmmaking and learning achievements of pupils
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from across the UK. From our observations and discussions with
teachers and young people, it is absolutely clear that film helps to engage all young people in the class. Teachers felt that film played an important role in acting as a ‘leveller’. Unlike reading or listening activities, film-based activities allow every young person in the room to take part on an equal footing. We’re going to break all of this down by going
through specific areas that film can be centred as a cultural and educational tool, starting with literacy. We advocate for the use of film as a text that can be ‘read’ and decoded in a manner common to, and transferable to, the written word. An emerging body of evidence indicates the supporting of raised attainment when incorporating moving image texts into literacy learning. For example, in the first year of the currently running Film for Learning programme (a four-year professional development programme involving primary schools in England and Northern Ireland), teachers saw significant literacy learning outcomes in speaking and listening, creative writing and comprehension as a result of their training, and some reported evidence of improvements in persuasive writing and poetic writing as well. The ‘3Cs and 3Ss’ is a core teaching and
December 2020
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