Educational Films

In: Journal of educational media, memory, and society: JEMMS ; the journal of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 1-13

Abstract

Instructional media serve multiple functions in a school setting. They
can disseminate knowledge and skills while also informing and stimulating
discussion. They not only convey information and support learning
but also foster communication between teachers and pupils and between
classmates and groups. However, despite the significant role of teaching
media other than textbooks in the classroom, educational and media historians
have largely ignored them. This is all the more remarkable because
the current media revolution has made the media themselves particularly
topical. "Contact with and access to media," states Jelko Peters "presents a
significant and fundamental problem of our time, which is closely linked
with values such as freedom of communication and individual freedoms,
pluralism, access to education as well as involvement in culture and participation
in politics."