著者

トーステン マリー

出版者

放送大学

雑誌

メディア教育研究 (ISSN:13441264)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.3, pp.53-60, 1999

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In the past decade, the number of NGOs (nongovernmental organizations) has risen dramatically. At the same time, various forms of media have also proliferated. At the intersection of these two juggernauts, where international organizations take advantage of media, we can look forward to new perspectives on international education new ways of critically thinking about the world. This paper will consider a documentary film that was made available to the public through satellite educational programming in the United States. Produced by an NGO, Hope is a Literate Woman (Laubach Literacy International, 1997), is available through the Adult Learning Satellite Service (ALS) of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which makes a variety of media resources available to educators. As this film demonstrates, women in ten different countries use literacy programs at the local level to overcome larger problems of poverty, disease, calamity and injustice. The extraordinary determination of these women in inspires viewers to think globally about the international sharing of problem-solving skills, and about local and personal issues common to many women in both rich and poor countries.