Schooling the world, 8. 6. 2014 v 15.00

Date: 8. 6. 2014

Place: ul. Bratislavská

Type: Other

We´re proudly announcing document SCHOOLING THE WORLD, that will be this year addition from our long-term partner, festival NAIFF.
Make sure, you won´t miss this unique document that will be shown in the Museum of Romani culture and ask yourself the question:

If you wanted to change a culture in a single generation, how would you do it?

You would change the way it educates its 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.

Beautifully shot on location in the Buddhist culture of Ladakh in the northern Indian Himalayas, the film weaves the voices of Ladakhi people through a conversation between four carefully chosen original thinkers; anthropologist and ethnobotanist Wade Davis, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence; Helena Norberg-Hodge and Vandana Shiva, both recipients of the Right Livelihood Award for their work with traditional peoples in India; and Manish Jain, a former architect of education programs with UNESCO, USAID, and the World Bank.

The film examines the hidden assumption of cultural superiority behind education aid projects, which overtly aim to help children “escape” to a “better life” – despite mounting evidence of the environmental, social, and mental health costs of our own modern consumer lifestyles, from epidemic rates of childhood depression and substance abuse to pollution and climate change.

 

Schooling the World, Carol Black, 65 min, USA 2011

Document will be in English, followed by a discussion with politologist Anna Pospěch Durnová and director of NAIFF Václav Pecl. Facebook event here. (Discussion will probably be in Czech, but in case of interest, translations may be provided.)