[ecrea] CFP: Lights, camera, learning: teaching with the moving image

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

*Lights, camera, learning: teaching with the moving image*

A conference organised by Learning on Screen and School of Arts, 
Birkbeck, University of London

*Thursday 19 – Friday 20 April 2018*

*Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD*

*Download CFP as PDF 
<http://bufvc.ac.uk/wp-content/media/2017/10/Lights-Camera-Learning.pdf>*

To mark our seventieth anniversary in 2018, Learning on Screen together 
with Birkbeck, University of London is pleased to announce a two-day 
conference exploring the history of teaching and learning with the 
moving image.

Formal education in many contexts increasingly relies on screen-based 
media, and there are active debates about the appropriate uses and 
efficacy of many forms of digital applications for learning. But it can 
be argued that current practice lacks a historical understanding of 
practices for learning with screens that stretch back at least to the 
interwar period. And while in the United States researchers have begun 
to investigate productively the uses of film and television in schools 
and similar institutions, its production contexts and reception (as is 
evidenced by the collections /Useful Cinema/ (2011) and /Learning with 
the Lights Off/ (2012)), such research in Britain remains comparatively 
underdeveloped.

Lights, camera, learning aims to bring together film and television 
historians with those engaged with the history of educational practice 
and policy and with practitioners past and present, to explore how film 
and television with explicit educational aims has been argued for, 
produced, funded, distributed, shown, received, discussed and understood 
over the past century in Britain.

*The conference will address in particular three strands of this history:*

  * Production, content and technologies of screen-based educational media
  * Classroom practice and pedagogies for the reception and use of film
    and television
  * Policy debates and determinations about the place and value of
    moving image media in formal education

Proposals for 20-minute panel papers are invited covering all aspects of 
the histories of teaching and learning in schools, universities and 
other institutions with and from moving image media, including:

  * The history of pedagogical practice with moving image media within
    formal education
  * Development and dissemination of techniques for using moving images
    in education
  * Understandings of the educational value of moving images
  * Religious and social concerns about the use of films in education
  * Government initiatives supporting the promotion and production of
    moving images for education
  * Founding of the BUFC in 1948, and the subsequent development of
    BUFVC and Learning on Screen, together with its activities, services
    and publications
  * The role of the British Film Institute in developing educational
    moving image media
  * The production of 16mm films for educational use, including the work
    of individual producers and production companies
  * Television production for schools, and the development of schools
    broadcasts by the BBC and ITV companies
  * Case studies of the creation and use of specific films and
    television productions
  * Media production after 1969 by the Open University, its
    dissemination and use
  * Distribution services for moving image media to education
  * The acquisition, use and maintenance of projectors, television sets
    and video recorders in institutions
  * Reception studies of educational moving image media
  * Integration of moving images with the curriculum
  * Production and dissemination of moving images by teachers and students
  * Legislation governing moving image media in schools, colleges and
    universities
  * Changing attitudes to permissions and copyright including the
    establishment of the ERA licence
  * Guides for the use of film and television in classrooms
  * Critical writing and theory about the use of moving image media in
    education

Submissions in the form of 300-word abstracts accompanied by a 
one-paragraph CV are invited by 30 November 2017

Please send submissions and queries to (arts-LOS70th /at/ bbk.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(arts-LOS70th /at/ bbk.ac.uk)>

Invitations to speakers will be issued by 31 December 2017

/Lights, camera, learning is convened by Mike Allen (Birkbeck, 
University of London), Professor John Ellis (Royal Holloway, University 
of London), Dr Emma Sandon (Birkbeck, University of London) and John 
Wyver (University of Westminster)/

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