DOCUMENT RESUME ED 029 490 EM 006 831 By-Hodgkinson. A.W. Screen Education: Teaching a Critical Approach to Cinema and Television. Reports andPapers on Mass Communications, Number 42. United Nations Educational. Scientific. and Cultural Organization. Paris(France). Mass Communication Techniques Div. Pub Date 64 Note-102p.: Study derived from International Meeting on Film and Television Teaching. Leangkollen. Oslo. Norway. October 7-13. 1962 Available from-UNESCO Publications Center, P.O. Box 433. 317 East34th Street. New York. N.Y. 10016 ($1.00) EDRS Price MF-$0.50 HC-S5.20 Descriptors-Art Appreciation. Audiovisual Aids. Education,Film Production Specialists. Fams. Film Stody. Higher Education. International Programs. Mass Media. ResourceMaterials. Teacher Education. Uavision Teachers. Television Viewing Identifiers-BeirutAgreement. BritishFilmInstitute. Florence Agreement. Institut fuerFilm und International Conf on Film Television the Child. Society for Education in Film andTelevision At the International Meeting on Film and Television Teachingheld in Norway in 1962. experts and specialists from 18 countries came together todiscuss aims. methods, and means whereby people. especiallt the young. would behelped to deepen their enloyment of the cinema and television. The resulting study attempts tofill the need of teachers of film appreciation in different countries.It attempts to assess in what manner, and to what extent. the techniques of teaching acritical approach to television entertainment differ from those already in use for teachingabout the film. Several papers prepared for the Meeting are reproduced in part or infuil in the appendices. They are concerned with teaching appreciation offilms and television. television as an art and as an Instrument for communication. Wth productionof screen teaching materialsand international exchange of these, with teacher training in this sublect area, and with a description of theInternational Centre of Films (Cinema and Television) for children. A list of materials for education Infilms and television is appended. A course syllabus is Included. (GO) No. 42 Screen education Teaching a critical approach to cinema and television Unesco This series of Reports and Papers on Mass Communication is issued by the Mass Communication Techniques Division of Unesco. Unless otherwise stated, the reports may be reproducedin full or in part, provided credit is given to Unesco. The following reports and papers have so far been issued and are obtainable from National Distributors of Unesco Publicationsor from the Mass Communication Techniques Division, Unesco, Place de Fontenoy, Paris-7e. REPORTS AND PAPERS ON MASS COMMUNICATION Number 11 Paper /or Printing (other than Newsprint) and Writing -1929-1931 Trends. 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(The italics are my own), 28 2 footnote (1) For: read : (The underlining is my own). 36 table, "Filmed" col. Total, last addition. For: 9 '4, read: 12!4. 38 2 footnote (6) Add: London, Barrie and Rockliff, 1960. The figures on page 12, read: The 39 1 para. 4, 3rdline For: figures on page 36. 53 2 footnote (2) For: Editions du Tembourinaire, read : Editions du Tambourinaire. 82 2 Italy For: Doctor Evalina Tarroni, read : Doctor Evelina Tarroni. 89 2 Germany For: EINE FILMSZENE ENTSTERT, read: EINE FILMSZENE ENTSTEHT. PREFACE need expressed in a previous To some extent, the present publication canbe regarded as answering a In the preface to 'TeachingAbout Unesco book on the subject of teachingfilm and television appreciation. would seem the Film", by Dr. I.M.L.Peters, the following passage occurs :"The evidence now available who engage in to indicate that the next stageof development should befor teachers in different countries together pedagogical methods which teaching film appreciation to sharetheir experiences and to work out and to what could be generally adopted, aswell as for an attempt tobe made to assess in what manner, those already extent, the techniquesof teaching a critical approach totelevision entertainment differ from cinema film." in use for teaching about the Film and The "stage of development"referred to above was reached atthe International Meeting on Television Teaching, held at Leangkollen, nearOslo, Norway, by the InternationalCentre of Films (Cinema and Television) for Children, withthe support of Unesco. However,while the present publication records the essence of what happened at thatmeeting and reproduces asappendices much, of the most important documentation arising from it, thefollowing study is primarily a personalevaluation by its author (Mr. A.W. Hodgkinson) of, first, the reasons whyencouraging attitudes ofdiscrimination towards the mass media should be regarded as a challenge toeducators in what may become known asthe "Telstar era", and second, the school. On the basis of the ar- the forms which screen educationshould take both inside and outside it would seem that the stage guments of this studyand the recommendations that werearrived at in Oslo, of international development to beexpected next may lie in the directionof introducing screen education into the regular schoolcurriculum and training teachers for their newtask - in each case, however, accord- ing to national, and evenlocal, requirements. An example of the growing interest in screeneducation may be seen in the careerof the author of this the study. A professional teacherersonally devoted to inculcatingfilm and television appreciation in classroom for a number of years, a founderand an officer-bearer of theSociety for Education in Film and Institute, Mr. Hodg- Television in the United Kingdom, and sometimeEducation officer of the British Film kinson was invited by the Finnish NationalCentre of Films for Children to visitFinland on a lecture tour He has since gone to the in 1963 to spread the idea of screeneducation in the major cities of that country.