(based on a Japanese folk tale)

Critics show their limitations and ignorance when they read this pithy and witty film as a critique of Soviet realities. This film criticises civilisation, globalism, racism, and imperialism, of which so many nations are guilty.

Table of contents: for kids from 0 – infinity . For Children about U.S.S.R. .Wonder-pysanka .The Little Steam Engine from Daisyland – Thomas the Little Tank Engine’s Soviet antipod. Translated into English by me. .The Moth Translated into English by me. .The Island (subtitles not needed) .Crane Feathers – based on a Japanese folk tale […]

page 2 Continued…. (for an in-depth examination of education see my book “Wild Children – Domesticated Dreams: Civilization and the Birth of Education” (Fernwood 2013). In fact, I argue that the methods, in pedagogical and psychological interventions, themselves are curriculum in their own right, inculcating a specific habitus through which individuals may continually reproduce their […]

Layla, guest speaker on the programme: In the Motherhood, hosted by Trixie Dumont CKUT, 6pm Wednesday, 19th March, 2008 Click HERE (Routledge 2015) for an in-depth analysis of Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness.   Discussion of The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls mp3 (correction: Of course, I meant “winter” and NOT”summer” when I was talking on […]