Girls' Tales: Women Discuss Schooling

Streaming video - 2015

GIRLS' TALES: Women discuss experiences of schooling consists of three thirty-minute episodes. The documentary is a compilation of interviews in which adult women recollect the experiences and opportunities of their secondary school education.. It is a rich educational resource and a provocative discussion starter on the subject of female experiences in secondary school, and also a stimulus for student's own research. It is at once inspiring, humorous and disturbing.. Episode One (Happiness, Uniforms and Bodies) recounts instances of belonging at secondary school alongside incidences of non-belonging. Experiences re-told include issues of negotiation surrounding the requirements of wearing school uniforms that inform a conception ...of desirable bodies.. Episode Two (Subject Choices, Teachers, Opportunities) recounts student interactions with teachers and others, involving incidents of injurious speech. It also recounts the impact of school spaces and illustrates the dynamism of matter. This episode discusses active participation and elucidates a particularly troubled relationship for these young women with mathematics.. Episode Three (Sex, Exclusions, Bullying) considers interactions connected to sex education and sex talk at school. These accounts inform h. more