In Lessons for the New School (La Nova Escola) prestigious director and producer Ventura Durall follows the education reform “Escola Nova 21” program which has generated an educational revolution in Catalonia, during the three years of its existence. Can an education system be successfully changed from the bottom up? Only time will tell, but the seed for rethinking the education of the citizens of the future has come to stay. And it is unstoppable.
La Nova Escola (Lessons for a New School)
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Water Witness International
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