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The future of the world is perhaps being played out in an elementary school in Quebec, where a teacher is implementing a new teaching method (Action Research) aimed at preparing children to take up environmental challenges. During a very special school year, the students of Dominique Leduc's grade six class are learning to identify, rigorously analyze and resolve a problem that exists in their world. They are also learning about the uncertainty faced by those who want to change things. A unique and invaluable witness to this experimental educational project, the documentary Hope Builders demonstrates how this teaching method is important in developing critical intelligence in students, but it also underlines the crucial role of the teacher. Director emeritus Fernand Dansereau reminds us therefore that we must still look to the human instinct to find reasons to hope.

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Agency - French program:.Québec Studio.
Study guide available.

Credit Note

Research, Fernand Dansereau ; writing, Fernand Dansereau ; direction, Fernand Dansereau ; camera, Julien Fontaine ; sound recording, Stéphane Barsalou ; editing, Hélène Girard ; sound editing, Luc Mandeville ; mixing, Serge Boivin, Luc Léger ; foley, Nicolas Gagnon ; original music, Francine Beaudry ; executive producer, Yves Bisaillon ; producer, Monique Simard, Christian Medawar.

Performer Note

Narrator, Hubert Fielden ; participation, Dominique Leduc, Andrès Alfaro, Raphaël Aubin, Améliane Barrette-Sévigny, Camille Bélanger, David Bissonnette, Marco Caceres Ordonez, Camille Chapdelaine, Isabelle Cloutier, Aleksandra Collin, Steve Desjardins, Sandrine Dupont, Guillaume Gagné-Legault, Marie-Pier Gallant, François Gosselin-Racicot, Annabelle Lamoureux-Drapeau, Guillaume Leduc-Lavigne, Marie-Christine Leroux, Maxime Massé, Samuel Ouellette-Marion, Nicolas Pelletier, Nicolas Perreault, Maude Perron, Élizabeth Richard, Dominik Roy Tremblay, David Blais, Jean-Marc Bouchard, Kim Brodeur, François Cormier, Nathalie Côté, Jean-Philippe Fortin, Denis Pelletier, Audrey Perron, Stéphane Plante, Claude Poudrier, Nathalie Robitaille, Lyne Savaria, Nathalie Trudeau, Valérie Veilleux, Lyne D'Auteuil, Pierre Curzi, Gilles Plante, Jean Gaudreault.

Time of Event Note

Recorded 2010.

Summary

The future of the world is perhaps being played out in an elementary school in Quebec, where a teacher is implementing a new teaching method (Action Research) aimed at preparing children to take up environmental challenges. During a very special school year, the students of Dominique Leduc's grade six class are learning to identify, rigorously analyze and resolve a problem that exists in their world. They are also learning about the uncertainty faced by those who want to change things. A unique and invaluable witness to this experimental educational project, the documentary Hope Builders demonstrates how this teaching method is important in developing critical intelligence in students, but it also underlines the crucial role of the teacher. Director emeritus Fernand Dansereau reminds us therefore that we must still look to the human instinct to find reasons to hope.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).