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The Forbidden Education (2012)

The Forbidden Education poster
Original title
La educación prohibida
Directed by
German Doin
Genre
documentary film
Country
Argentina
Runtime
2h 01m
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 21 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This documentary explores different ways of learning outside traditional schools. It shows alternative education methods in Latin America and Spain.

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What happens

The Forbidden Education (Spanish: La Educación Prohibida) is an independent documentary released in 2012. The film documents diverse alternative education practices and unconventional schools in Latin America and Spain and includes educational approaches such as popular education, Montessori, progressive education, Waldorf, homeschooling. It became the first released movie in Spanish to be funded under a crowdfunding methodology. It was also highlighted by its distributed screening proposal that enabled a synchronized release in 130 cities in 13 countries with a total number of 18,000 viewers in a single day. One week after its release, the movie was viewed almost 2 million times. The film was released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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