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Schooling the World

Directed by Carol Black
2010    66m
7.7
If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children. The U.S. Government knew this in the 19th century when it forced Native American children into government boarding schools. Today, volunteers build schools in traditional societies around the world, convinced that school is the only way to a 'better' life for indigenous children. But is this true? What really happens when we replace a traditional culture's way of learning and understanding the world with our own? SCHOOLING THE WORLD takes a challenging, sometimes funny, ultimately deeply disturbing look at the effects of modern education on the world's last sustainable indigenous cultures.
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Cast of Schooling the World
  • Wade DavisSelf - Ethnpbotanist National Society
  • Helena Norberg-HodgeSelf - International Society for Ecology and Culture
  • Elijah GergenSelf - Principal Moravian Mission School
  • Vandana ShivaSelf - Navdanya
  • Manish JainSelf - Shikshantar People's Institute for Rethinking Education and Development
  • Julian SchweitzerSelf - Director of Human Development World Bank
  • Dolma Tsering TeykhangSelf - Women's Alliance of Ladakh
  • HeidiSelf - Lamdon School of Ladakh

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