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The hopes, fears, and aspirations of adolescence are expressed in the close friendship of two Afghan boys. As their acceptance of the filmmakers leads them to express their feelings more and more openly, the film grows rich in fact and themes of universal concern.
Filmed in the Balkh Province, an area inhabited by Tajik and other Central Asian peoples. The town of Aq Kupruk is approximately 320 miles northwest of Kabul. The theme of the film focuses on education and socialization. The film and accompaning instructor notes examine formal and informal learning systems, and how they are changing. Particular attention is paid to the lives of one or two young people in the educational system, to their family and kinship structure, and more broadly to educational policies in the developing world.
Films in the Afghanistan series
About the Faces of Change Collection
Faces of Change is comprised of 25 films that examine five cultures selected for their distinct geographic locations: starting with the China Coast at sea level and moving up to Taiwan, then to Afghanistan, Kenya and finally to the mountains of Bolivia. Each location is examined through five themes: Rural Society, Education, Rural Economy, Women, and Beliefs.
This innovative collection of 16mm films and videos was funded by the National Science Foundation, produced by Norman Miller and directed by some of the finest ethnographic filmmakers of its time.
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Keywords:
- Central Asian Studies
- Afghan Studies
- Afghanistan
- Northern Afghanistan
- Tajik
- Aq Kupruk
- Kabul
- Balkh Province
- Mazar City
- Urban and Rural Stresses
- Daily Life
- Daily Work
- Ways of LIfe and Subsistence
- Land Work
- Family
- Rural and Urban Relations
- Schooling
- School and Rurality
- Education
- Farming
- Urban Bazar
- Clothes Bazar
- School Bureaucracy
- School Examinations
- Oportunities
- Educational System
- Globalization
- Center and Periphery Relations
- Core-Periphery
- Peripheries
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0575-Naim-and-Jabbar-faces-of-change-david-macdougall-note.pdf
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0575-Naim-and-Jabbar-faces-of-change-study-guide.pdf
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0575-Naim-and-Jabbar-visual-evidence-an-instructional-approach.pdf
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