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Publication Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 95 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A story about a village teacher who introduces education for local self-development explores the relationships between progressive activists, entrenched social interests, traditional belief system and rural Africans. Sango Malo offers American viewers an intimate and engaging portrait of the complex social dynamic underlying economic and political change in a typical African village. It argues passionately that a populist education must be a key component...
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Publication Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 82 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the normal routines of a rural elementary school are thrown into a panic when the alarm sirens go off, warning them of an imminent nuclear attack. Mrs. Andrews, the sixth grade teacher, leads her group of students through the countryside to a bomb shelter. When they arrive at the shelter, they divide the rations and assume various duties, not knowing if they are in the middle of a nuclear holocaust or if it was...
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In the three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre, a story has grown up around one of the victims, Sarah McHale, that says she died proclaiming her Christian faith--but Leanne Bauer was there, and knows what happened, and she has a choice: stay silent and let people believe in Sarah's martyrdom, or tell the truth.
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"Every morning, Shaka and his little sister Nandi walk with their father to school. Though the journey is long and hot, they arrive at school happy to see their friends and ready to learn. Then one day, their father gives them terrible news: he has to go work in a mine far away, and they won't be able to go to school anymore. The route is too dangerous for them to walk alone, so they'll have to stay home. But when they discover a yellow toy bus in...
