Search Results: literacy

Logos & Literacy

Renowned scholar Dr Jordan B Peterson takes us on a captivating journey through the Museum of the Bible, where we are met with historians, theologians, and philosophers who discuss...

Comic Book Literacy

Comic books are a medium as diverse as movies and encourage more thought than video games. Yet this misunderstood medium has always been the dirty little secret of the literature w...

Financial Literacy

Kings Literacy Initiative Pact

Documentary short following the John Corcoran Foundation as they combat illiteracy and sub-literacy in Kings County, CA.

Peru: Literacy for Social Change

Adult educator Paulo Freire developed literacy programs in northeastern Brazil to combat part of the colonial legacy of illiteracy and promote social change. This film depicts adul...

Literacy Amidst Ignorance: Anton Solihin and Batu Api Library

Anton Solihin is an interesting person. As the owner and caretaker of Batu Api library, a small library in Jatinangor, West Java, Indonesia, he is known for his unique taste and ch...

Maestra

Cuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. 100,000 of the teachers were under 18 years old. Over half were women. MAESTRA explores this st...

BBC Computer Literacy Project

In the 1980s, the BBC explored the world of computing in The Computer Literacy Project. They commissioned a home computer (the BBC Micro) and taught viewers how to program. The Com...