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Knowing to Learn
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Knowing to Learn

Jan 1, 1966
1h 12m
★ 0.0

Overview

This feature documentary about education explores the mid-century state of learning in the classrooms of North America. New approaches to learning and the emerging technologies that facilitate them are explored, including the new roles of the computer, tape recorder and television. Directed by Quebec cinema giant Claude Jutra (Mon Oncle Antoine), the film was produced with the collaboration of researchers studying all forms of education, from infancy to adulthood.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

ONF | NFB

Cast

Lister Sinclair

Narrator

Lister Sinclair

Jane Leduc

Narrator

Jane Leduc

Marie-Josée Genin

Narrator

Marie-Josée Genin

Claude Jutra

Narrator

Claude Jutra

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