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As the filmmakers explain, schools have existed for over 200 years and are still regarded as the main way of accessing education. And yet nowadays the very concepts of school and education are subject of debate in academic forums, public policies, educational institutions, the communication media and civil society. Those who challenge existing educational structures and practices agree that current models do not take nature, the freedom of choice or the importance of love and human relationships into account in individual and collective development.
On August 13, 2012, the documentary film The Forbidden Education will premiere online and in independent film centers. The film is a collectively funded project based on a study which spans eight Latin American countries and analyzes 45 unconventional educational experiences, closely examining the logic of modern schooling and its understanding of education. Moreover, it includes interviews with more than 90 education professionals who are applying alternative educational proposals, including the Montessori method, homeschooling, systemic pedagogy, popular education, free education, logosophical pedagogy, Kilpatrick project methods, new active schools, democratic schools, Waldorf education and the Reggio Emilia approach.
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41 DVDs copies of the documentary were burned as an example of sharing by using the principle of the copyleft license. DVDs have got for default English subtitles which you can disable them on your DVD player. Mainly, the aim of this action is to gift the DVDs to the closer persons I meet in my social circle; therefore each of them, in an ideal situation, will see the documentary in order to extract and apply what they considered the best ideas to their personal life and then gift it to another person to continue the process of sharing.
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It is important to mention that film was collaboratively financed thanks to hundreds of coproducers and is under copyleft license, which promote the copy, viewing, distribution and modification without commercial goals. The documentary is in Spanish with subtitles in different languages [2].
Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid. – A. Einstein
The Forbidden Education [1] is an independent documentary film in which basically educators and researchers from 8 different countries share opinions and ideas of the alternative education practices and unconventional schools in Latino American; what is more proposals and practices are described as an alternative of a new kind of education in today's demanding world. For a detailed review go to the review section.
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Over the years, these critical reflections have given rise to proposals and practices which see education in different light, which have dared to challenge the traditional school model of education and whose ideas and experiences venture to explore The Forbidden Education [4].
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[1] La educación PROHIBIDA, Sitio Oficial,
available at http://www.educacionprohibida.com/pelicula/que/
[2] Documentary: The forbidden education,
available at http://takethesquare.net/2012/09/02/documentary-the-forbidden-education/
[3] The Forbidden Education, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia,
available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forbidden_Education
[4] Gonzalo de Castro, ‘The Forbidden Education’, a documentary film Review
available at http://www.intervida.org/en/publications/studies/%E2%80%98the-forbidden-education%E2%80%99-a-documentary-film
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