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Four motivated mothers addressed the needs of marginalized youth to create Project Media. Media creation, nutrition and physical activity were just some of the topics covered throughout this powerful learning adventure!

Teaching media creation is a great way to encourage young voices to shine. Project Media took it a step further and hired a group of young people to learn both media production and practical skills for everyday living.

Four motivated mothers, fed up with a lack of accessible arts programming, put together Project Media, aimed at young people facing barriers to employment and education. The results were a powerful learning process.

Six participants embarked in a 20 week program designed to develop employability and life skills such as team building, critical thinking and organization.

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Summerhill - clip 2

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Contributed by Citizen Shift

Length: 1 min 26 sec

License: Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd)

Year of Production: 1966

Director:

Dennis Miller

Producer:

Cecily Burwash

A visit to a school without fixed rules, where students study as they wish, and are their own masters. A co-educational English boarding school, Summerhill was founded by Alexander Neill a half-century ago. In the film he explains his objectives, and from the activities of the children at work and play can be seen how his methods work. School, he says, should put preparation for life ahead of learning.

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Comments

home school

by Jacob Bos

Sun, 08/10/2008 - 03:11

Summerhill I would send my son there, ther is a school I attended in New Mexico that was different, they allowed you to focus on who you are. It was named "Down to Earth" in a city called Silver City, They called me Canada and after I graduated I went on to University to study psychology and nursing. They gave me a part time position teaching pysical eduction to the youngster class. That was one of the best times in my life. The school was in a hundred year old house.