FILM EDUCATION IN SODANKYL

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FILM EDUCATION IN SODANKYLÄ

• In-service teacher training project on film
  education

ICT-League Meeting, Sodankylä, May 12th 2005
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NEED FOR FILM EDUCATION

• children see films even before they can speak
• media manipulates our identities, views and
  social relations from the early childhood onwards
• history of the cinema will be forgotten by the
  new generations
• school could be the only place where children can
  have a real chance to talk with adults about what
  they see on television

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FILM CULTURE IN SODANKYLÄ

• Midnight Sun Film Festival
• summer 2005 the 20th anniversary
• Midnight Sun Film Centre
• film productions and marketing
• Film Education in Sodankylä
• teacher training
• Kitisenranta School
• international film education

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FILM EDUCATION IN SODANKYLÄ BASIC FACTS

• the project is coordinated by the municipality of
  Sodankylä
• aims to improve the status of film education in
  curricular structures
• funded by European Social Funds, Ministry of
  Education and municipality of Sodankylä
• budget 2004-2006 192 867
• EU 65,6
• Ministry of Education 14,2
• Municipality of Sodankylä 20,2
• 1.6.2004 31.5.2006

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GOALS

• to improve curricular structures
• to provide teacher training
• to create material for teaching film education
• to foster the status of the cinema as an art form

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1. FILM EDUCATION ON SCHOOL LEVEL

• to watch and experience film
• to critically analyse and understand the language
  of the cinema
• to use moving image as a tool for self-expression
• to use moving image as teaching method
• to see film as an art form

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2. TEACHER TRAINING

• digital video technology camera and editing
• history of cinema
• film analysing
• introducing professional film makers
• film educational methods

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STATISTICS

• over 80 training events
• 186 persons already participated in the project
  from all around Lapland
• 154 belong to school staff
• over 2400 people have attended the film
  screenings
• training for digital video camera 57 teachers
• training for digital video editing 70 teachers

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FILM EDUCATION AT KITISENRANTA SCHOOL
Kitisenranta School is participating in two
international film education projects during
2004-2007

• Comenius 1 School projects
• partnership schools from Poland, France, England
  and Italy
• aims to develop pedagogical methods and learning
  environments
• aims to transfer good practises, methods and
  materials

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FILM EDUCATION AT KITISENRANTA SCHOOL

• Comenius 3 Networks
• partnership schools and associations from Italy,
  Germany, Spain, Finland, France, Netherlands,
  Romania and Ireland
• Aims
• to communicate between pupils
• to develop the knowledge of European cinema
• to make own video films
• to analyse films

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FILM EDUCATION AT KITISENRANTA SCHOOL

• 45 pupils study film education as voluntary
  subject
• classes for the 7th, 8th and 9th grade pupils
• also film projects on different school subjects
  (e.g.)
• religious classes
• history classes
• music classes

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IMPACTS OF THE PROJECT

• Sodankylä profiles as a film oriented region
• teacher training project provides resources and
  materials for high quality film educational work
  also in the future
• outcomes of the project will work as examples to
  similar activities in Finland

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CONTACT INFORMATION

• Project Secretary
• Tommi Nevala
• Municipality of Sodankylä
• Film Education in Sodankylä -Project
• Vasantie 11
• 99600 Sodankylä
• FINLAND

phone [phone] fax [phone]
155 e-mail tommi.nevala_at_sodankyla.fi