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FILM IN HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION
formation. Story of Menstruation1 is such a film, and users report that this film can do much to dispel fear and correct false impressions regarding the menstrual period.
5. The film affords a learning situation for teachers as well as for class members.
6. The film de-emphasizes textbook presentations, and offers a challenge to the good teacher to explore this area and other areas of basic teaching material.
The foregoing points are by no means exhaustive; they are only suggestive of the possible outcomes of the educational film in the field of health education. More attention has been given to the instruction area; but health educators with some ingenuity in planning will find the educational film has a contribution to make in the phase of health service as well. For example, a film showing the procedures of a child health examination could do much to prepare children for that experience and eliminate any anxieties they may have because of misinformation or lack of understanding. There should be no clear line of distinction between the health instruction phase of health education and the healthful school living phase. The film has a function to perform in relating these. The film forum could be made a very useful agency in both adult education and communiy hygiene improvement programs. It is not too far fetched to think that such an adult education program might grow out of a ninth or tenth grade health class through the medium of a parents' group.*
The film cannot completely solve problems facing teachers, administrators, and those supervisors who view with concern the present state of affairs in health teaching, but it can be recognized as a useful tool which can be used to shape learning.
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* Health teachers willing to explore this area should follow the briefs ot such film forum programs in Film Forum Review, Institute of Adult Education. Columbia Univerity, N. Y.
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