Scottish International Film Education Conference 2018
WEDNESDAY 20 JUNE 2018
Meadows Lecture Theatre (G.07), William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, University of Edinburgh, EH8 9AG
9:30 - 17:30
FREE
Film is a distinct medium with a distinct history and, as such, requires a distinct pedagogy.
The Scottish International Film Education Conference is one of two new UK-based initiatives exploring how teachers and other educators work with film in diverse contexts around the world, and committed to involving other participants – policy-makers, academics, researchers, cultural agencies and film-makers – in that conversation. The conference will be a free, one-day event taking place at the University of Edinburgh, exploring perspectives on film education from Scotland, England, Ireland, Burkina Faso, Austria, Denmark, Germany and beyond.
The conference is organised in partnership with the newly-established Film Education Journal, the world’s only publication dedicated to film pedagogy, published by UCL Institute of Education Press. The journal will be launched on the 20th June at the Scottish International Film Education Conference.
Free to attend. Reserve your place here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/scottish-international-film-education-conference-tickets-46409475992
The Scottish International Film Education Conference and the Film Education Journal are supported by Creative Scotland, British Film Institute, University College London, Institute of Education, Centre for the Moving Image and Transgressive North.
Conference Schedule
9.30 - 10.30: Launch of the Film Education Journal.
Speakers: Professor Karen Lury (Uni of Glasgow), Dr Jamie Chambers (Uni of Edinburgh), Mark Reid (BFI), Professor Andrew Burn (UCL/IoE), Scott Donaldson (Creative Scotland).
11.00 - 12.15 A life-cycle of film education: short papers from the FEJ
Hosted by Professor Andrew Burn (UCL/IoE):
• Cary Bazalgette (former head of education, BFI) - Researching prior learning: how toddlers study movies
- Alejandro Bachmann (Austrian Film Museum) - Film education and the institution: a media-ecological perspective
- Lena Eckert and Silke Martin (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena) - Film education and age(ing)
14.00 - 15.15 Global perspectives on film education
Panel event featuring Gaston Kaboré (Imagine Film Institute), Professor Rod Stoneman (National University of Ireland Galway) and Professor Mette Hjort (University of Copenhagen), hosted by Professor Will Higbee (Uni of Exeter)
16.00 - 17.30 Using film in the classroom: a case study of the Understanding Cinema project at Granton Primary School
Hosted by Mark Reid (BFI)
Featuring Aoife Donnelly (Granton Primary School), Avril Whelan (Granton Primary School), Jamie Chambers (filmmaker).
Featuring the films Get Over It (2016), See You Tomorrow (2017) and Lobstercatcher (2018).