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Film Education: A User's Guide

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Course Features

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Duration

4 weeks

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Delivery Method

Online

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Available on

Lifetime Access

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Accessibility

Desktop, Laptop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Intermediate

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Effort

4 hours per week

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Teaching Type

Self Paced

Course Description

Learn how to create and start your own film education program

The BFI is a leader in film education. This course will teach you why film education is important and how European agencies have successfully advocated film education.

You'll learn from experts from the UK, Germany and Spain, France, Spain and Slovenia, Italy, Greece, and other countries how to organize, manage, and design film education programs for your learners.

You'll learn from those who work in prestigious film archives, festivals, teachers, and those who run school-cinema programs and film education NGOs.

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Skills You Will Gain

What You Will Learn

Explain the core and common rationales behind film education: why teachers and other educators think film education is valuable, and the arguments they use to advocate that value

Explore the wide range of film education approaches that exist, and how they differ between countries, and between age groups and different sectors

Identify how different cultures and education systems manage and promote film education, and how they evaluate its impacts and benefits

Propose and advocate for film education programmes of your own, in your own country or setting

Demonstrate a strong grasp of the key approaches to teaching about film, and how different skills like film analysis and production mutually enhance and support each other

Target Students

This course is designed for educators working in the film or media education who are looking to broaden their knowledge and expertise, try out new ideas, and learn about great practice

Course Instructors

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Mark Reid

Instructor

I've been working at the BFI in London for nearly 20 years, looking after a range of education programmes and projects. Before that I taught in schools in south London as an English and Media teacher
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Ian Wall

Instructor

Ian is a teacher, author, producer, screenwriter and director and has worked on a number of European projects, including the Framework for Film Education. He has won 2 BAFTA's.
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Kari Rysgaard

Instructor

My primary working field is developing hands on film activities for schools and preschools – both in the film studios FILM-X and in schools, libraries and daycare institutions.

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