Educational films are reviewed in the light of discrimination, also how it leads to the stereotypical portrayal of people and events in the movies.

1. Educational films
review in the light of
“DISCRIMINATION”
Presentation by
Divyani, Sarah, Pallavi ,Sapna

2. DISCRIMINATION
It is the unequal or unfair treatment
of a person based upon some
personal characteristics

3. OBJECTIVES
To explore educational films through the lens of
discrimination
To explore various dimensions and aspects of
discrimination portrayed in educational films.

4. RATIONALE
The purpose of this paper was to analyse educational films through the len of
discrimination and to see how movies maintain or break the stereotypical portrayal of
discrimination. We saw that discrimination was evident in all the films both implicitly
and explicitly, which could later be categorized as language based discrimination, race
based discrimination, gender based discrimination ,class based discrimination
,discrimination done to differently abled, discrimination done by teachers, by peer, by
family, by siblings, discrimination among professions.

5. Discrimination among professions in “Dead Poets
Society”

6. “Nil battey sannata”

7. Racial discrimination in “Freedom Writers”

8. Discrimination
on the basis of
GENDER in
“To educate a girl”

9. Discrimination based on ability in “taare zameen par”

10. Discrimination based on language in
“Hindi medium”

11. Conclusion
This study has broadened the horizon of understanding about
discrimination done by different agents of socialization in
educational films.
Educational films have the potential to elicit learners, teachers,
and teacher educators towards the different dimensions of
discrimination. It also has the potential to cajole them towards an
emerging culture of inclusion and empathy.

12. Thank you