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| Genre/Form: | Video recordings for the hearing impaired Nonfiction television programs Documentary television programs |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Jane Elliott; Jane Elliott |
| Material Type: | Juvenile audience, Videorecording |
| Document Type: | Visual material |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jane Elliott; Yale University. Films.; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.); PBS DVD (Firm) |
| OCLC Number: | 52343621 |
| Language Note: | Closed captioned for the hearing impaired. |
| Credits: | Director of photography, Floyd Freidus ; film editor, David Hanser. |
| Performer(s): | Host, Judy Woodruff. |
| Production notes: | Previously broadcast on Mar. 26, 1985 as a segment of Frontline. |
| Target Audience: | Ages 13 through adult. |
| Description: | 1 videodisc (57 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Details: | DVD. |
| Contents: | Reunion -- Blue eyes -- Brown eyes -- The lesson -- Jane Elliott's motives -- Group discussion -- Prisoners -- Sensitizing adults -- Adult de-brief. |
| Other Titles: | Frontline (Television program) Eye of the storm (Motion picture) |
| Responsibility: | a production of Yale University Films for Frontline ; WGBH Boston ; produced and directed by William Peters ; written by William Peters, Charlie Cobb. |
Abstract:
Documents a reunion of Iowa teacher Jane Elliott and her third-grade class of 1970, subjects that year of an ABC News television documentary entitled "The eye of the storm". Shows how her experimental curriculum on the evils of discrimination had a lasting effect on the lives of the students. Includes scenes of her lesson being used in a prison setting.
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- Elliott, Jane, -- 1933-
- Community Elementary School (Riceville, Iowa)
- Prejudice.
- Child.
- Teaching.
- Discrimination -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Iowa -- Evaluation.
- Race discrimination -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Iowa -- Evaluation.
- Prejudices in children -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Iowa -- Evaluation.
- Class reunions -- Iowa.
- Educational sociology.
- Discrimination in education -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Iowa -- Evaluation.
- Moral education -- Iowa -- Evaluation.
- Prejudices.
- Racism -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Iowa -- Riceville.
- Prejudices in children -- Prevention.
- United States -- Race relations.
- Films for the hearing impaired.
- Eye of the storm (Motion picture)
- Discrimination.
- Race discrimination.
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