"bfi
Education awarded grant for disability and film
education project A grant from the Department of Work and Pensions will
be used to create a video and teaching guide to raise awareness of disability
through film."
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Dr
Paul Darke, Wendy Earle
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Monday 9th December 2002
bfi Education has been awarded a grant of £50,000 by the Department
of Work and Pensions to create a video compilation and teaching guide
to help raise awareness of disability through film in schools across
the UK.
Following the announcement Minister for Disabled People Maria Eagle
visited an education workshop at the National Film Theatre and met with
members of the Disability on Film team including project leader Wendy
Earle, and Dr Paul Darke of Outside Centre who will be working on the
project along with Disability Equality in Education.
Access to culturally diverse work through the medium of film education
is a core objective of the bfi. The grant will help create a video and
teaching pack for teachers across the UK raise awareness of the issues
faced by people with disabilities.
This is one of 4 UK-wide projects receiving major grants, part of a
Government-sponsored programme of innovative projects dealing with disability
planned to run throughout 2003, European Year of Disabled People.
Disability on Film
A video compilation and teaching guide for raising awareness of disability
through film
• An educational resource pack including a video compilation of films
by disabled people about disability and a teaching guide to promote
awareness of disability in primary and secondary education, particularly
in relation to Personal Health and Social Education and issues around
Citizenship
• The project will also provide in-service training to teachers to encourage
and enhance the effective use of the resource pack in schools
• A programme of events for primary and secondary schools will be held
at the National Film Theatre and at regional film theatres in the UK
• Resource materials will be distributed free to schools
• Additionally web pages on the bfi website will further support users
of the packs
Though this project will be completed by March 2004, we will be able
to continue and repeat elements of it after the European Year of Disability.
The National Film Theatre hosted the Disability Film Festival in June
2002 and the next edition is in planning for June 2003."
From the bfi site http://www.bfi.org.uk