33.010 - Film Expo: Schooling the World

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

All over the world, volunteers build schools in traditional societies, convinced that school is the only way to a 'better' life for their children.  But is this true? What really happens when we replace a traditional culture's knowledge with modern education?

Beautifully shot in Ladakh, India, SCHOOLING THE WORLD weaves the voices of Ladakhi people through a conversation between original thinkers Helena Norberg-Hodge, Vandana Shiva, Wade Davis, and Manish Jain to create a challenging, sometimes funny, ultimately disturbing look at the “human monoculture” of modern schooling. In the end, the film calls for a “deeper dialogue” with these ancient sustainable societies in which we realize we have as much to learn as we have to teach.

Film Website: http://schoolingtheworld.org

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chairs

• Jonathan I Gayles, Georgia State University

• Neal Marlens, Schooling the World Film

• Jim Hurst, Schooling the World Film