Originally posted on Ha Thanh Nguyen:
#CIES2015 featured the Cinematic Spaces of Education Festivalette, which consisted of panel discussions and film screening. In one presentation I attended titled “Education in Popular Film: Pastime or Pursuit for Comparative Education Scholars?”, the presenter discussed the history of education in film in four periods. I didn’t quite catch…
Monthly Archives: March 2015
This is an impressive story about gender roles, appearance and the performance of subjectivity. Mum of the year is a ‘man’: Woman who has lived as a man for 40 YEARS so she could support her daughter is honoured by Egypt An Egyptian widow lived her life as a man for 43 years so she […]
Hosted by CIES 2015, Education International and the Open Society Foundations Education Support Program [Cinematic] images reflect thought, and they may lead to thought, but they are much more than thought’ — MacDougall, 2006 In its inaugural year at the Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society, the Cinematic Spaces of Education Film […]
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The films consists almost exclusively of interviews with a number of pupils and two fathers of pupils at Shahid Masumi school who are asked to give their opinion on the traditional teaching practice of assigning homework. Issues such as some parents’ illiteracy and their inability to help their children with the homework are raised. The […]
Not One Less (1999) Set in the People’s Republic of China during the 1990s, the film centers on a 13-year-old substitute teacher, Wei Minzhi, in the Chinese countryside. Called in to substitute for a village teacher for one month, Wei is told not to lose any students. When one of the boys takes off in […]
by Wendy Cope At lunchtime I bought a huge orange— The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I got a half.
One of the amazing things of the last year was that I could name two more poets my favorite authors: Rumi (Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī) and Mary Oliver. Rumi’s words through Coleman Barks’s translation: Pale sunlight pale the wall Love moves away the light changes I need more grace than I thought — If you […]
Museum of Education 