Present Status and Future Vision of Film Education in Overall Arts & Culture Education

Abstract

The arts & culture education that began in 2005 has brought about diversity of school arts & culture education in many respects for 7 years. The core of all education consists in the students who enjoy education and accept and develop arts & culture education. The purpose of arts & culture education is set in proper direction when they recognize and utilize the objectives and needs of arts & culture education properly. Arts & culture education has been expanded to a total of 8 areas by adding 3 areas of photograph, design, and crafts from 2010 to the existing 5 areas of theater, film, animation, dancing, and Korean traditional performing arts. However, it cannot be said that arts & culture education develops just because the genres of arts & culture education are expanded. How adequately the educational contents are organized, how properly the instructors are conveying the educational contents, and how actively students are participating in the education need to be examined. Particularly, the following two factors are urgent problems that should be solved anytime soon in order to attain film education. First, ‘teaching materials’ should be developed. It is reality that elementary and intermediary film education has been conducted with teaching plans prepared at the instructor’s discretion without film textbooks. The development of moving image data teaching aids and some teaching materials has been under way but the reality is that there are no official film education textbooks. Film textbooks should be developed and established anytime soon so that film education by differentiated level can be implemented and actively utilized in the film education fields. Second, ‘creative teaching method’ should be developed. Film art instructors’ training programs should be organized so that creative education by creative power teaching method can be attained, instead of just focusing on simple routine training. Arts & culture education that is based on creative writing should be approached differently from other general subject of studies education. ‘It is nothing particular. Isn’t it a creative teaching method since it is based on creative writing? Such preconceived notion should be discarded. In arts & culture education, it is the film education that should be conducted by systematizing creative teaching method so that the students’ imagination can be developed infinitely and applied to all the areas of daily life. And it should help the student grow as well-rounded persons contributing to society, if not necessarily grow as artists. Creative teaching methods should be applied to all aspects of arts & culture education in the school educational fields so that the students can enjoy arts & culture education pleasantly. Particularly in film education, educational activities encompassing entire moving image media should be developed and the concept of one-source-multi-education, the characteristics of film, should be expanded and developed to classes connected to diverse school educational courses of studies, and this is the purpose that film education as arts & culture education should pursue.