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School on the Move - DVD ONF/NFB


Catalogue Number:  NFB546017
Producer:  National Film Board Of Canada
Directors:  Michel Debats
Producing Agencies:  La Gaptière Production
Subject:  Canadian Social Studies, Cyber Education, Diversity, Documentary, Education, Geography, Media and Communications, Religious Studies, Social Issues, Social Studies, Tech/Voc, World History
Language:  English
Grade Level:  6 - 8, 9 - 12, Post Secondary
Country Of Origin:  Canada
Copyright Year:  2008
Running Time:  50:09


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Instead of going away to school, some Evenk children of remote Siberia have the school brought to them!

French anthropologist Alexandra Lavrillier is fighting alongside the Evenk people of south-eastern Siberia to save their heritage. School on the Move travels with her to the taiga where this nomadic people live. Here she has helped set up a mobile school to give Evenk children the chance to receive a modern education without having to sacrifice their ancestral traditions. Lessons, for example, include learning to use a computer and lassoing and riding a reindeer.

Instead of being sent away to a boarding school at age 6, young Evenk students can stay with their families, making it possible to conserve and even revive their language and culture.


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