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THE NEW WAY TO LOOK AT EDUCATION

Burma Through Skateboarding

CJ Westerberg, June 20, 2011 7:55 PM

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Video Documentary Below

Was hooked after the first minute (runs 19 min.).
Global, culture, education - the real deal.

Via Will Richardson

Related posts The Daily Riff:  What Skateboarding Can Teach Us About Learning

Altered Focus: Burma from Hot Knees Media on Vimeo.

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Now, keeping in mind these fourfold interests - interest in conversation, or communication; in inquiry, or finding out things; in making things or construction; and in artistic expression - we may say they are natural resources, the uninvested capital, upon the exercise of which depends the active growth of the child..
John Dewey, The School and Society, 1900
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