What educators are saying:

"Global Studies opens kids eyes up to feelings and emotions, to empathy and compassion. It far extends beyond the classroom."

8th Grade Teacher
Hamilton Middle School, Seattle

"The Cup was the first foreign language film many of the students in our classes had ever seen, and the themes, cultural content, social-political context and pacing of the film was totally unlike the media they are very familiar with. We are all looking forward to the next film!"

6th grade teacher
East Village Academy, NYC

"We are extremely pleased with the films we have used and the cultural sensitivity development explicit in the curriculum."

7th Grade teacher
Albuquerque Academy, New Mexico

"The students are quite interested about learning about other students in their exact age group from around the world.  This is truly an international learning experience. We are very glad to be a part of this pilot program." 

7th grade social studies teacher
Esmond School, Chicago

"It is a fascinating and valuable program that is opening up the eyes of our students to different cultures and different ways of life."

6th Grade teacher
Oscar Meyer School, Chicago

"Many students felt that the movie-format provided a very engaging way to experience aspects of another culture that would otherwise be extremely distant from their world. Such global awareness and education is needed as our world becomes more interconnected and such quality educational projects are needed to deepen the exposure and experiences of our youth."

-Andrew Werth
7th grade teacher
Albuquerque Academy

"Everyone realizes that, as our country gets more diverse and our world gets smaller, the need for cross-cultural understanding has never been greater.  Middle school teachers, facing the daunting task of providing educational experiences that will help prepare their students for this new world, will love Journeys in Film."

 -Sheldon Hackney
Former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities
Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania.

"From working with the Journeys in Film group last spring, I was impressed not only with their global idealism, but their approach to getting children to empathize, to begin to see culture in whole ways. I strongly support a program of this nature because we need better tools for getting into other people's shoes."

-John Egbert
7th grade History teacher
Albuquerque Academy

"In these troubled times that we live in, it is more imperative than ever to provide programs for our youth that will challenge them to think about such fundamental social values as tolerance, mutual respect, human rights, and understanding of all cultures."

-Regina Turner
Director
New Mexico Foundation for Human Rights Project

"Journeys in Film" is a brilliantly conceived, systematic and engaging curriculum that cultivates that tolerant impulse and makes it more sophisticated through informed and imaginative engagement with other peoples' way of life and "pictures of the world".  

-Richard A. Shweder
Carnegie Scholar and William Claude Reavis Distinguished Service Professo

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