Magic of the Frame - Teach with documentary film!

We are glad to share the great news that our project Magic of the Frame - Teach with documentary film! has received financial support by Erasmus+ Programme under contract N: 2021-1-HU01-KA220-SCH-000029686.

The project has the ambitious objectives to help secondary school teachers to connect to and guide young people. We hope to achieve this by developing a new method to highlight the importance of social issues, using documentary films (helped along with collecting knowledge in the field, film screenings and workshops, and collecting data through students’ feedback) in order to produce effective tools to bring students closer to reality in a protected environment and thus offer a model to the teachers and other educators.

The primary target group of the project is secondary school teachers, willing to tackle social issues in class and open to using documentaries in education.

 

Project Countries: Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Netherlands

 

Project partnership:

Leading partner: Palantír Film Vizuális Antropológiai Alapítvány, Hungary

Partners: 

• Changes & Chances, Netherlands
• Civil Initiatives Association - Lovech, Bulgaria
• CROMO Alapitvany, Hungary
• Kürt Alapítvány, Hungary
• Professional school of veterinary medicine " Prof. dr. Dimitar Dimov", Bulgaria
• Stichting Kunstzinnige Vorming Rotterdam (SKVR), Netherlands
• VŠĮ Nepatogus kinas / PO Inconvenient Film, Lithuania
• Youth Centre Babilonas, Lithuania

 

Project results:

The project covers various activities closely connected to achieving the following project results:

• Curriculum development
• Online Database
• Tutorial Video for Field Work
• Professional Visual Project Diary
• Pedagogical Manual
• Development of short trainings
• Manual about Student Feedback
• Toolkit/exercise book (good practices from teachers)

Within the project implementation period 4 short training for teachers outside the partnership will be organized as well as 4 classic multiplier events and teacher exchanges related to the different film packages.

 

Magic of the Frame - Teach with documentary film! - the Magic Becomes Real

The nine partners in four countries, teachers and trainers in 5 schools with four Film Activity Packages (FAPs) have continued to create in Magic of the Frame - Teach with documentary film! project.

The practical phase of the project in the schools has started. The partners completed many activities related to teachers and their students.

Data about participants' activities and opinions was collected and teachers' insights into new methods, with country specifications were developed.

The core of the FAPs were the four selected films:

• Dívák/Divas in Hungary
• A Brothers Journey in the Netherlands
• Seahorse in Lithuania
• Bayer and the Bees in Bulgaria

 

Nevertheless, the different social topics of the documentaries selected for the 4 countries, the activities in each class followed the same methodological structure:

• Presentation of the topic – processing
• Introduction to the documentary genre
• Screening of the film selected for the country
• Discuss the film with the students and process the emotions aroused
• Field visits by students to places where they meet people who are connected or involved in the social issue addressed in the documentary film they have watched.
• Collecting feedback from students (interviews, photographs, written reflections).
• Measuring change
• Further discussion of personal experiences and student activities

This phase was the central element of the Magic project, as the other outputs of the project will be based on the information gathered here: Curriculum Development, Tutorial Video for Field Work, Professional Visual Project Diary, Pedagogical Manual, and Manual about Student Feedback.

Further information:

https://www.cromofoundation.org/magin-in-the-frame/