Artistic narrative documentaries for the classroom
Nextus is a program for children, teenagers and young adults. Numerous award-winning international documentaries offer pupils a horizon-expanding view of world history and current world events. The content is suitable for teaching at grammar schools, secondary schools, technical and vocational colleges and universities.
Teachers can put together their own individual lessons from the carefully curated documentary feature films and short clips on various topics. With diverse documentary perspectives on world events, 3 to 7-minute film clips enable an interdisciplinary form of learning: young people experience history, politics and society from different perspectives. How does it feel to grow up as the grandchild of a migrant worker? What was youth like in the GDR? How does climate change affect different parts of the world and what global social changes are associated with the current development of AI?
Based on the curriculum of secondary schools, the documentaries and learning materials can be used in the subjects of German, history, social studies, art, ethics and religion, politics, economics and foreign language lessons. Based on the 17 sustainable development goals of the UN's "Agenda 2023", the main topics are science, society, technology, art and culture, democracy and human rights.
Participate as a partner school
In order to be able to evaluate and further develop the digital platform together with teachers and school classes, we are making it available free of charge to secondary schools throughout Germany. Yo have free access to all documentaries and collections of various thematic film clips. The schools receive their own access, which is valid for the entire teaching staff and pupils. Teachers from a partner school can thus work with the platform across all subjects.
The platform is in constant development and is growing internationally and thematically with new partner countries and film titles. A team of experts is constantly developing the interactive usability of the platform for users. Teachers and students alike have the opportunity to develop lesson sequences based on documentary films and thematic clip collections. DOK.education accompanies the introductory phase with teacher training courses. At the end of the school year, a final evaluation takes place in which teachers and pupils are asked about their satisfaction, wishes and suggestions. By participating as a partner school, you will gain insights into the development of a forward-looking and innovative documentary film platform for teaching, be certified as a partner school and enrich an international creative team.
Contact
Are you interested in participating as one of our partnerschools? Please contact us!
Project management:
Mona Klöckner, kloeckner@dokfest-muenchen.de
DOK.education, educational programme of the International Documentary Filmfestival Munich e.V.
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