Videos on the Social Sciences

Boys dance Rossmoyne Senior High School dance programme c2006, 2007

Nancy Jones, Charisse Parnell, Blue Moon Film & Video, and Contemporary Arts Media (Firm)

Charisse Parnell, Dance Coordinator at Rossmoyne Senior High School, (Western Australia) describes her efforts to address gender inequity in dance at her school. This video follows a group of students in her Boys Dance Initiative, demonstrating the techniques used to engage the students, the importance of role models (adding a male dance instructor and having upper grade boys do classroom visits to encourage other boys to join the program), and the additional variety of dance and martial arts movements that have been introduced. 1 videodisc (22 min.)

MEDIA 10-1965

Lines in the dust c2001

In a small village in northern Ghana, a group of men and women discuss their daily chores with the help of a chart they've drawn in the dust. This village is part of a program called Reflect, which aims to reach the 900 million illiterate adults across the world. Reflect uses participants' own knowledge and experience as starting points for learning. Lines in the dust looks at this program in Ghana and India, and how it not only teaches people to read, write, and work with numbers, the participants are also changing ideas about men's and women's separate workloads, standing up for their rights, earning more money for their families, and becoming self-assured. 1 videodisc (27 min.)

MEDIA 10-4329

A place called Los Pereyra 2010

Hugh Gibson, Andrés Livov-Macklin, Films du Chapeau!, and Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)

In the impoverished and extremely isolated region of Northern Argentina known as "The Impenetrable", the children of a tiny elementary school eagerly await an annual visit from their "Godmothers", a charity mission from the city of Buenos Aires. The children learn many things from their "Godmothers", including a glimpse of privileged life and, perhaps, a realization of their own poverty. 1 videodisc (82 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3478

A school of their own c2006

Debra Kaufman, Jay Hopkins, Rabble Rouser Productions, and Choices, Inc

"In remote Nepal, The Riverside School is a unique educational environment that educates low-caste and tribal children, half of whom are girls. There, children flourish in an environment free of the caste system, gender prejudice, and violence found in government schools - and in their society at large.  Follow the school's struggle to stay afloat during the bloody ten-year civil war in which children are caught in the middle. The police accuse them of being Maoist rebels while the rebels themselves forcibly draft children over twelve years old into their army" -- Container. 1 videodisc (58 min.)

MEDIA 10-1764

School's out 2007?

Dick Bower, Television Trust for the Environment, and Bullfrog Films

Explores the issue of private versus public schools in Makoko, a shantytown in Lagos, Nigeria. 1 videodisc (23 min.)

MEDIA 10-1306

Yi ge dou bu neng shao Not one less 2000

Yimou Zhang, Yu Zhao, and Minzhi Wei

A young woman is ordered to a remote, rural, Chinese village to be the substitute teacher and is told that she must keep the class intact for one month or she won't be paid. When one of her students disappears into the city to find work, she goes after him. 1 videocassette (ca. 106 min.)

DANA   MEDIA 1589       10-13