Unteachable

Original title: 孺子不可教

"What could the joy of learning look like in a place like Singapore?"

2019 76 min Chinese Yong Shu Ling

Overview

Ng Meixi returns to Singapore having spent time in Mexico working with low-performing students. She joins a local school as a relief teacher but takes on a mammoth task: to pilot a new pedagogy to help students in the Normal (Technical) stream learn better. She reconfigures the classroom from a teacher-directed one to a community that aims to empower students as learners and tutors to each other. Will this work in Singapore’s result-oriented education system?

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