Kreativní videofilm a digitální fotografie v kontextu celoživotního vzdělávání osob s mentálním postižením

Abstract

In the last decade questions relating to technical communication media and the educational process have been acquiring ever greater prominence and urgency. The problem does not lie in the diffusion of the new media, but in the question of how we ourselves should approach this open, contradictory space, where theinfluences of authors and users, amateurs and professionals, and chosen and unchosen communication situations, all intersect and mix. It is beneficial for every individual to be helped to develop an ability to use and exploit the new possibili- ties so that his or her interest does not stop at the mere entertainment level, but evolves in the direction of critical thinking, saturation of “emotional potential”, the development of creative activity, and the enlargement of ideas and knowledge . The symbiosis of technical media and the independent creative engagement of every person, in our case people with mental disability, appears to be one of the paths to his or her formation and development regardless of his or her (non) otherness in the contemporary world. Courses in creative videofilm and digital photography are concrete realisations of this idea.