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Direct linkGudiño Cejudo, María Rosa – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2016
"Literacy for the Americas" was an audiovisual educational program implemented in Mexico and other Latin American countries in the early 1940s by the Office of Inter-American Affairs (OIAA). Walt Disney Studios made four short films that were designed to teach illiterate residents of Latin America how to read and write. In Mexico, this…
Descriptors: Films, Teaching Methods, Audiovisual Instruction, Criticism
Farley, Lisa – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2004
This paper draws on the philosophical works of Emmanuel Levinas--namely, his notion of "useless suffering"--in order to open up questions of learning and community beyond typical configurations that structure (and sometimes limit) social attachments according to a requisite degree of commonality. It is argued that while discourses of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Feminism, Social Action
