Peer programming:
when young people choose

The responsibility for choosing the content of a curriculum usually lies with adults - teachers, educators, or programmers. Teachers have important roles to play as ‘trusted guides’ in introducing children and young people to new, and sometimes challenging, material. But there is a powerful argument for letting children and young people to direct their own choices - in film as in any other area of learning.

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The video below collects the voices and views of a group of slightly older young people - aged between 18 and 20 - who have worked with the Glasgow Film Theatre in Scotland. The group constitute what are known as ‘young programmers’, or sometimes ‘young consultants’: a group of peers who choose films, and devise events for each other.

While this group do not take responsibility for introducing film into a curriculum or classroom, the principle of the learner, or participant, being directly involved in their own learning projects or activity is a sound one.

Task

Watch the video below - paying especial attention to the still images - and see if you can infer the kinds of event they curate.

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How do you think they programme film events for each other?
What do you imagine they are learning as they do so?

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