Film Education in Poland – Historical Outline and Current State of Research
Film Education in Poland – Historical Outline and Current State of Research

Summary/Abstract: The text explores traditions of film education, understood as education through film, in Polish film studies. Although film education has been a de facto part of informal education, we can trace many initiatives aimed at making it an element of formal schooling. Hence the attempt to incorporate film education into school curriculums at various levels of education, undertaken mainly by academic film experts (B. W. Lewicki, E. Nurczyńska-Fidelska). School film education has been fraught with numerous technological obstacles, as well as a lack of available materials to use as a foundation for educational practice. It has also been a challenge to develop appropriate competences of teaching staff. Film education has not found its place as a subject within formal education until today. The current fragmentation of entities responsible for it, and the lack of a coherent strategy means that film education becomes the domain of commercial and non-commercial programmes implemented in cinemas for the purposes of school education.

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