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Chinese Schools (2008)

aka: Chinese School

Subject

Education; Geography; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £17.00

Documentary series about the hopes and dreams of a group of children at three schools in the small Chinese town of Xiuning, in rural Anhui. The programmes focus on the lives of a group of families, teachers...

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Playgrounds of Prejudice (199 Video)

Subject

Education; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £10.00 (inclusive)

Looks at patterns of power and prejudice enacted in playground play. Uses an an incident involving two boys, one Irish and the other black, to explore some of the issues that arise when schools try to frame...

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Moving from Old to New: Energy Transmissions (2016)

Subject

Energy

Chaitanya Kumar from Sussex University talks to Roger Fouquet from the Grantham Institute at the London School of Economics about how the transitions from one form of energy use to another have occurred,...

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History: What is Its Future? (1991 Video)

Producer

Rosemary Hill

Subject

Education

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

Examines the current debate on how history should be taught in schools. Looks at the development since the 1970s of the ‘new history’with its greater emphasis on skills and social history, and at the...

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Committing Poetry in Time of War (2006)

Director

Eric Sorotkin

Subject

Literature; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 111 minutes), £15.99

This documentary tells the story of teacher Bill Nevins who was fired from his job as a high school teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when he encouraged his students to write poetry protesting against the...

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Hard Act to Follow, A (1996 Video)

Producer

Geoff Wheeler

Subject

Education

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Explores how schools are coping with the new climate of competition brought about by the 1988 Education Reform Act and asks if the Act is bringing schools closer together or driving them further apart. Shows...

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Firth on Firth: Reflections of an Anthropologist (1993 Video)

Director

Rolf Husmann; Peter Loizos; Werner Sperschneider

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 49 minutes), £50.00

Sir Raymond Firth, one of Britain’s most eminent anthropologists, in conversation with Peter Loizos. Firth looks back on memories of New Zealand, Tikopia, and Malaya and recalls other anthropologists. His...

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Child Studies 4: 3-5 Years (1994 Video)

Director

Kirin Davids

Producer

Kirin Davids

Subject

Psychology

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1996 sale: £40.00 (inclusive)

Looks at social development in children, showing 15 children from six families, with examples of peer interaction, speech and social skills, and focusing on family values that shape a pre-school child’s...

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Bully: I Just Want It to Stop (1997 Video)

Director

Kimberly Littlemore

Subject

Education

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Explores the experience of Carterton Community College in Oxfordshire, which has adopted a controversial new approach to bullying. Called ‘no blame’ it involves no punishment or blame but revolves around...

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Norte, The End of History (2014)

Director

Lav Diaz

Subject

Film studies; Literature; Philosophy

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 250 minutes), £8.69

In the northern Philippine province of Luzon, a law-school dropout commits a horrific double murder; a gentle family man takes the fall and receives a life sentence, leaving behind a wife and two kids. A...

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