Time for School. Hope and Despair in the Fight for an Education. Part 3
Description
The 2009 installment in Wide Angle's Time for School series reenters the lives of seven students in seven different countries, offering a glimpse of the worldwide battle to get what most American children take for granted: a basic education. These riveting case studies in India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Benin, Brazil, Japan, and Romania feature young teenagers embracing academic challenges that will, with luck and hard work, prepare them for high school. Other hurdles, from school closings to slum crackdowns to violent fundamentalism, continue to disrupt hopes and dreams-forcing one child to repeat a grade, another to study on an empty stomach, and another to quit her education altogether. But a conversation with Benin-born musician and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angelique Kidjo provides a ray of optimism.
Runtime
113 min
Series
Subjects
- Educational sociology (42)
- Human geography (324)
- Women (809)
- Cultural geography (235)
- Sociology (1145)
- Public schools (50)
- Equality (339)
- Education (938)
- Social ecology (250)
- Sexism (149)
- Sex discrimination (91)
- Women's rights (215)
- Human ecology (350)
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2010], c2009
Database
Films on Demand
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