UID:
kobvindex_ZLB13811894
Format:
1 Videokassette (VHS, 94 Min.)
,
NTSC
Edition:
1
Series Statement:
Library of African Cinema : [Video]
Content:
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 ... 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 of any democratic, human-centered development paradigm for Africa. Bassek ba Kobhio explains why his first feature focuses on education: "It is education which can form a new people...It is hard to think about changing African society without envisioning an appropriate form of education." Sango Malo contrasts two views of education. The traditional headmaster represents a rigid, "Eurocentric." curriculum designed to produce docile colonial administrators. Malo, the radical young teacher, emphasizes the practical skills needed to build a self-reliant rural community. The film illustrates Brazilian educator Paolo Freire's celebrated distinction between an education which the ruling class uses to inculcate its values in students' minds and one which empowers students to shape their own destiny. (California Newsreel)
Note:
Franz., mit engl., Untertiteln
Language:
French
Keywords:
Subsaharisches Afrika
;
Landbevölkerung
;
Schule
;
Film
;
Videokassette
;
Freire, Paulo
;
Emanzipatorische Erziehung
;
Subsaharisches Afrika
;
Lehrer
;
Schüler
;
Film
;
Videokassette
;
Videokassette
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