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School's Out

Environmental Justice • 35m

Directed by Lisa Molomot • Documentary • 2014 • 36 minutes

No classroom for these kindergarteners. In Switzerland's Langnau am Albis, a suburb of Zurich, children 4 to 7 years of age go to kindergarten in the woods every day, no matter what the weather. This eye-opening film follows the forest kindergarten through the seasons of one school year and looks into the important question of what it is that children need at that age. There is laughter, beauty and amazement in the process of finding out.

The documentary is a combination of pure observational footage of the children at kindergarten in the forest, paired with interviews with parents, teachers, child development experts, and alumni, offering the viewers a genuine look into the forest kindergarten. There are also scenes of a traditional kindergarten in the United States to show the contrast between the different approaches.

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african studies, alternative education, area studies, being outdoors, bullfrog films, child development, child development experts, contrast with us kindergarten, cultural and ethnic studies, doc, dr. marcy guddemi, early childhood education, ecopsychology, edgewood school, education, environment, environmental education, expository, forest kindergarten, langnau am albis, nature education, nature1, new haven, observational footage, outdoor education, ovid, ovid_ca, parents, psychology and mental health, s_0011, s_0066, s_0087, s_0090, s_0093, s_0498, s_0516, s_0636, school's out, switzerland, teachers, title_nopqrs, title_s, unsupervised play, womandirector

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