A Film About the Desire to Learn A Film by Jan Gabbert Limited Number of Copies Remain! View the Trailer by Clicking Here AERO has arranged to be the North American distributor (we'll still ship international as always) of this remarkable documentary. You can find out more about it by visiting their website at www.democratic-schools.com. At democratic schools pupils themselves can decide, what and how they want to learn. There are no curricula, no censorship, and examinations are voluntary. Pupils and teachers have the same rights and organize their schools together. Everyone has a voice with decisions. Can that be done well? Background When it finally became clear that we, the KinderRÄchTsZÄnker (a group of young people campaigning for children's rights) were going to undertake the costly task of organising IDEC 2005, we got an exciting idea. It occurred to us that this conference would offer a good and what is more extremely rare opportunity to tell the German public in documentary format about the worldwide alternatives to the current national school routine. We were able to start from the fact that several hundred people from all over the world, experts in the area of "democratic education", were going to meet in Berlin in the summer of 2005. R Kahl's film, "Hothouses of the future", had aroused much interest at the end of 2003 and we were already busy producing the documentary film, "Pretty Cool System", which has since been issued, so we became more confident that a film like "Democratic Schools" would attract wide attention.However, we still had to decide what we actually wanted to achieve with a film like this. It soon became obvious to us that our target audience should not be those who were already experts in the politics of education. The idea emerged that we should produce a film that would try to show, as factually and objectively as possible, what unites these schools that assemble once a year under the visionary banner of democracy. After a long process of selection we decided to have this project produced by the award-winning film-maker, Jan Gabbert. The fact that the costs for this are to be assumed by the National Ministry for Education and Research also gives us good reason to hope that this film will appeal to a wide public. Languages: English, German, Danish Duration: 35 min Subtitles: English, German Region Code: Free Picture Format: PAL | NTSC | 4:3 Format: DVD 10 |
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