Transformers, The
- Synopsis
- Series looking at teaching children with learning difficulties, showing practice in the USSR, Israel and the USA.
1: Shows the methods being used to teach deaf and blind children in a school in Zagorsk in the Soviet Union. Totally deaf 11-year-old twins Nadya and Vera, can ‘listen’ to music through vibrations. One former pupil, Natasha, who is almost totally deaf and blind, went to university and is now a wife, mother and practising child psychologist.
2: Explains how the teaching patterns devised by Professor Reuven Feuerstein for children in post-war refugee camps are now being used with black teenagers in New York and disadvantaged children in Jerusalem.
3: Looks at the theories of American philosopher Matthew Lipman, who theorised that children must be taught how to think before they can learn to absorb facts. Shows the Philosophy for Children programme in practice at schools in contrasting environments. - Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 3 x 60 min.
- Year of production
- 1990
- Availability
- Sale; 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £150.00 (+VAT +p&p) series
- Documentation
- A-level students.
- Subjects
- Education
- Keywords
- educational psychology; learning disabilities; special needs education
Sections
- Title
- Butterflies of Zagorsk, The
- Synopsis
- 1: Shows the methods being used to teach deaf and blind children in a school in Zagorsk in the Soviet Union. Totally deaf 11-year-old twins Nadya and Vera, can 'listen' to music through vibrations. One former pupil, Natasha, who is almost totally deaf and
- Title
- Out of the wilderness
- Synopsis
- 2: Explains how the teaching patterns devised by Professor Reuven Feuerstein for children in post-war refugee camps are now being used with black teenagers in New York and disadvantaged children in Jerusalem.
- Title
- Socrates for six year olds
- Synopsis
- 3: Looks at the theories of American philosopher Matthew Lipman, who theorised that children must be taught how to think before they can learn to absorb facts. Shows the Philosophy for Children programme in practice at schools in contrasting environments.
Production Company
- Name
BBC Television
Distributor
- Name
BBC Active Video for Learning - now BBC Learning
- Contact
- Carolina Fernandez Jeremy Wilcox (CF - for educational enquiries JW - channel sales manager)
- BBCStudiosLearning@bbc.com
- Web
- https://www.bbcstudioslearning.com/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- +44 (0) 20 8433 1009
- Address
- BBC Studios Limited
Television Centre
101 Wood Lane
London
W12 7FA
UK - Notes
- The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. Formerly known as ‘BBC Worldwide Learning Studies’ and before that as ‘Videos for Education & Training’
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