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    Classmates

    Shwu-Mey WU 2009 Taiwan Documentary color 50min Mandarin, Taiwanese Digi Beta
    This film features 4 friends who were classmate of inclusive preschool and elementary school, one third of students of which were physically or mentally handicapped. The time span of the film is 19 years, describing those 4 friends’ growing since preschool. Two of them, the normal students, are studying in university, while the other two, the handicapped students, have been working since their graduation from high school special education class. One of the handicapped girl and her mother have their own restaurant, and the other is working at dumpling intern workshop of foundation. This film also includes the 20-year progress of inclusive class’s founder, transition of inclusive campus, and interview of the founder, the 4 friends and their families. It reveals the learning and working experiences of those four students since preschool and their interactions with others. The most valuable part is their remembrance of inclusive years after their grownup and their interpretation of inclusive education form their viewpoint and the influence they received from inclusive class.

    Director

    Shwu-Mey WU

    Shwu-Mey WU is the professor of the department of Special Education in Hsinchu University of Education. From 1989 She began to set up inclusive classes from preschool to middle school level. Each inclusive class has one third of students with disabilities. It is very touching seeing normal children’s true acceptance of and assistance to handicapped children in the inclusive classroom. From 1989 She began to videotape the touching scenes happened in the inclusive classroom. Two years ago, she chose the stories of four students represented the spirit of inclusion to make the documentary Classmates to witness the bright side of human nature and the process of popularizing inclusive education...

    Shwu-Mey WU

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    Director: 吳淑美 Shwu-Mey WU

    Producer: 吳淑美 Shwu-Mey WU

    Cinematographer: 吳淑美 Shwu-Mey WU

    Language: Manderin, Taiwanese

    Print Source: 財團法人福榮融合教育推廣基金會 Fu-Jung Inclusive Education Foundation

    Fu-Jung Inclusive Education Foundation

    財團法人福榮融合教育推廣基金會

    新竹市墩豐路24巷14號

    No. 14 Lane 24 Dun-Feng Rd., Hsinchu 300, Taiwan

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    E-mail: smw@mail.nhcue.edu.tw

    www.inclusion.tw

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