RE: films about classroom cultures

From: Cunningham, Donald (cunningh@indiana.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 14 2001 - 14:27:55 PDT


This probably isn't what you are looking for, but it sounds pretty
interesting. Adds a bit of the historical. Also see
http://www.pbs.org/publicschool/index.html:

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-----Original Message----- From: Mike Cole [mailto:mcole@weber.ucsd.edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 1:08 PM To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu Subject: films about classroom cultures

Does anyone know of good films that could be shown to an undergraduate class about culture and communication in the classroom? A colleague is teaching such a course, and it strikes me as a resource that many on thge list might make use of. mike



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