Shrek, E.T., Lassie, Billy Elliot and Orson Welles will be welcome guests in Israel's classrooms when school opens, this year and in years to come, in the wake of the Education Ministry's new list of recommended films. The list, organized by grade level, is to be distributed to kindergartens and schools within two months. Teachers will be encouraged to screen them and discuss them in class.
Years after visual culture, particularly movies and television, became central in children's lives, and long after the recognition of film as the seventh art, ministry officials finally decided that the time has come to use cinema as an educational tool and to expose students to its artistic qualities.
Ballin, a film school graduate, met with film and education experts to collect recommendations. "On the final list, I chose to include classics, more popular films and also ones I call three-star movies - good films that are not necessarily masterpieces. That decision was based on the assumption that a child who picks a movie next to 'Citizen Kane' on the shelf may become curious and take that as well. It's a way to expose children to movies and foster their interest in film," she said.
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Years after visual culture, particularly movies and television, became central in children's lives, and long after the recognition of film as the seventh art, ministry officials finally decided that the time has come to use cinema as an educational tool and to expose students to its artistic qualities.
Ballin, a film school graduate, met with film and education experts to collect recommendations. "On the final list, I chose to include classics, more popular films and also ones I call three-star movies - good films that are not necessarily masterpieces. That decision was based on the assumption that a child who picks a movie next to 'Citizen Kane' on the shelf may become curious and take that as well. It's a way to expose children to movies and foster their interest in film," she said.
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