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Zapomniana karta. O inicjatywach wprowadzenia filmu do szkół
The forgotten page. On the Introduction of Film Education to Polish Schools

Author(s): Maria Szoska
Subject(s): Education, School education, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Pedagogy
Published by: Wydział Filologiczny Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego
Keywords: Polish; film education; school curriculum; mobile cinema

Summary/Abstract: The article The forgotten page. On the introduction of film education to Polish schools raises a subject of film education in Polish schools. At the beginning of the article the author focuses on the groundbreaking school curriculum introduced to Polish schools in 2009. The teachers of Polish have had to include the elements of film education within their course since then. At the same time Polish Film Institute provided fourteen thousand schools with the packages of film materials. It was supposed to support film education in schools. The initiative was warmly approved by the press and various media. Nonetheless, it was not the first initiative of this kind in Poland as similar programme was introduced to schools in the 1930s by Film Institute of Polish Telegraphic Agency. The article is devoted to the description of this forgotten period of Polish education, which was terminated by the outbreak of World War II.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 103-115
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish