WHAT WEEKLY

Crossing Cultural Divides in a Rowboat

23 June 2011

★ Lee Boot

Education Rethunk, Part 6: Crossing Cultural Divides in a Rowboat

Bruce MacKenzie is a shipwright. He builds boats. But he also builds young people’s interest in learning by thinking about their culture, and about what it really means to be engaged in something. This is the sixth installment in the WhoWeAm series on education seen through the lens of culture.

Previous films in this series are below:

When It Works

Dusting Off Our Game

Ad-ucation

Educulture

Education Rethunk



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Peace Spore

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Brian Baker

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social innovation

Amplify Baltimore

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Operation Oliver

Redefining Family and Community

PNC Transformative Art

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artist profiles

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Robert Marbury

Brady Starr

sustainability

Small Time

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Farmageddon

Big Green Pirate Party

An Ambitious New Charter School Comes to West Baltimore

Baltimore Free Farm

Fixing The Future