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Rubem Alves: o professor de espantos [in Portuguese with English transcript and subtitles]
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AuthorAlves, Rubem A., 1933–2014
Date2013
Duration00:44:35
FormatVideo
GenreDocumentary Film
LanguagesEnglishPortuguese
SubjectEducation
NotesPublisher’s description (via Google translate): To what extent are we willing to give up all that we have gained in order to live new experiences? And how far can we go when the way requires prioritizing things so forgotten in today’s world as beauty, poetry, art and the ability to learn with child’s eyes? For the writer, educator, theologian and psychoanalyst Rubem Alves, crossing these limits is a challenge that has been imposed since childhood and that he has always accepted without fear. In the documentary “Rubem Alves - The Professor of Spirits”, we know a little of the life of this educator: his dreams, ideas and achievements and also the questions before aging. Considered one of the greatest contemporary thinkers of education in Brazil, the “gardener” Rubem Alves sows ideas so “revolutionary” that, on the one hand, provoke the criticism and contempt of many sectors of the Brazilian intelligentsia and, on the other hand, of all those who are passionate about Education ...A Portuguese transcript is also available.Copyright © 2013. Presented here with kind permission of TV Câmara and Instituto Rubem Alves.
CollectionLatin America Collection
CollectionPrinceton Theological Seminary Media Archive
ContributorPrinceton Theological Seminary
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