Abstract
Co-authored by Scottish secondary school teacher Kerry Abercrombie and film education practitioner Jamie Chambers, this article explores School of Media, a specialist pathway within a Scottish secondary school in which young people are able to engage with film education potentially throughout their entire experience of high school. First exploring how School of Media seeks to reconcile aspects of film education with Scotland’s national ‘Curriculum for Excellence’, this essay subsequently adopts a chronological perspective, detailing specific aspects of School of Media’s approach within each of the six years of secondary school. The essay concludes by emphasising the importance of enabling and empowering teacher-led approaches to film education within Scottish classrooms.
Highlights
While significant challenges remain, Scottish teachers are starting to find their own ways to integrate film education into the wider national curriculum
Michael Daly, Jacqueline Thomson and Jamie Chambers’s (2020) recent essay in the Film Education Journal – ‘Securing a place for film within the ongoing life of a Scottish state secondary school’ – has served to open up an important conversation for considerations of Scottish film education by looking at how film education is starting to be embedded by Scottish teachers in longer-term capacities into both curricular and extra-curricular settings within schools
This essay seeks to follow directly in the footsteps of Daly et al (2020), in exploring a case study in which aspects of film education have been further embedded into wider curriculum frameworks within a Scottish secondary school, this time as a focused pathway encompassing all six years of secondary study
Summary
Scottish teachers are starting to find their own ways to integrate film education into the wider national curriculum. We first explore a broader discussion of how film education fits (or, rather, struggles to fit) within Scotland’s national Curriculum for Excellence framework, before going on to provide a relatively detailed account of the learning activities with which School of Media students at Larbert High School engage in each of their years of study.
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