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Voices from the New American Schoolhouse explores life outside the usual educational box. Narrated exclusively by students, the film chronicles life and learning at the Fairhaven School in Upper Marlboro, MD which practices an undiluted form of freedom and democracy that turns mainstream education theory on its head. Filmmaker Danny Mydlack enjoyed unrestricted access over a two-year period to produce this candid and unblinking encounter with kid-powered learning.
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MKSmith81(Saturday 29th of November 2008 04:24:25 PM)
Its so refreshing to see that there are environments that encourage true learning for young people and are free of the repressive and stifling conformism of public schools. This gives me hope that the mainstream educational revolution isn't far behind these visionaries.
taknu2skule(Tuesday 25th of November 2008 12:59:26 AM)
As for people's "bashing" towards the school system we have in place...
School doesn't try to force you into thinking a certain way.
It TEACHES you to LEARN, ANALYZE and COMMUNICATE in different ways.
We have to take certain courses because they are the basis for primary leaning, they give us a different taste of how we can use our brains in different ways.
As you get older, you get to choose more and more, start specializing in what you love to do once you have a bit of everything.
taknu2skule(Tuesday 25th of November 2008 12:51:38 AM)
No education system is perfect. This one is just as flawed as the one we have in place.
Why?
This will not work to educate in masses (when the girl talked about 1 on 1 learning)
This "children learning" relies heavily on the group dynamic. You might end up with a group that just doesn't click.
It's a great idea that may work in some cases, but unfortunately it just isn't practical and there is really no proof that people will be able to keep up with the stresses of the working world.
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Nope- these kids are educated and motivated to a far superior standard than "traditional schools"
(sppf, standard? we're humans! Why do we have to have EVERYONE meet the same standard?)
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Treemeadow(Wednesday 16th of April 2008 09:04:44 PM)
wow, thats even better! I had always thought that you would go to an outside source to do that, like a COmmunity College or something, but its fantastic to know that your school facilitates your learning to such detail, that it caters for induvidual students who wish to do it.
I have GOT to get the democratic school movement rolling in Australia!
