{"id":1505,"date":"2010-11-30T16:50:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T00:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/"},"modified":"2010-11-30T16:50:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T00:50:38","slug":"schooling-the-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/upcoming-events\/schooling-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Schooling the World | November 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Schooling the World: The White Man\u2019s Last Burden<\/strong><br \/>\nFlim Screening and discussion<br \/>\nNovember 24th from 6-8pm | Global Lounge Media Room<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/schoolingtheworld.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"stwslidertitle\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/files\/2009\/06\/stwslidertitle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"453\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em> You would change the way it educates its children.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Government knew this in the 19th century when it forced   Native American children into government boarding schools. Today,   volunteers build schools in traditional societies around the world,   convinced that school is the only way to a \u2018better\u2019 life for indigenous   children.<\/p>\n<p>But is this true? \u00a0What really happens when we replace a traditional   culture\u2019s canon of knowledge with our own?\u00a0 Does life really get better   for its people?<\/p>\n<p>SCHOOLING THE WORLD takes a challenging, sometimes funny, ultimately   deeply troubling look at the role played by modern education in the   destruction of the world\u2019s last sustainable indigenous cultures.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/schoolingtheworld.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/schoolingtheworld.org\/<\/a> for full synopsis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schooling the World: The White Man\u2019s Last Burden Flim Screening and discussion November 24th from 6-8pm | Global Lounge Media Room If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children. The U.S. Government knew this in the 19th century [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":720,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1505","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/720"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1505\/revisions\/1508"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ethicsofisl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}