Inspirations. Bringing education to the Himalayas

Inspirations. Bringing education to the Himalayas

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	[England] : Teachers TV/UK Department of Education, 2009.
Description:	1 online resource (21 min.)
Language:	English
Series:	Education in video, volume 1
Subject:	Education -- India. Career development. Multicultural education. Career development. Education. Multicultural education. India. Instructional television programs. Instructional television programs.
Format:	E-Resource Streaming Video Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10314914

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Other authors / contributors:	Maverick Television (Television network)
ISBN:	9781503414457
Notes:	Title from resource description page (viewed May 9, 2014). Previously released as DVD. Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Education in Video). Available via World Wide Web. This edition in English.
Summary:	The story of how education for all is reaching communities in the Indian Himalayas, one of the most magnificent but harshest environments of the world. Isolated villages 14,000 feet above sea level, completely cut off for half the year, have stayed beyond the reach of secular teaching. But now Pragya, an NGO operating with help from British funding, is helping to create classrooms here for the first time. The children of the Changpa nomads are also sitting down to lessons for the first time in canvas classrooms, which can move with them across the mountains. Teachers and managers are trained within the community to overcome the shortage of staff willing to work there. The problem of supplying power is also being solved by harnessing the wind and sun. These projects demonstrate that the Education For All Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education can be achieved even with these genuinely "hard to reach" communities.
Other form:	Original publisher catalog number C/3666/001

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Item Description:	Title from resource description page (viewed May 9, 2014).
Physical Description:	1 online resource (21 min.) 002123
Playing Time:	00:21:23
ISBN:	9781503414457