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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)
Email
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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